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I have recently fitted a 250GB hard disc in place of the original 80GB, in my Dimension 3100c. I then loaded the new disc with a cloned/image of Win XP taken from my original disc. To my surprise the system booted up and worked ok. The only problem I can see is that the system has NOT recognised the larger capacity disc. When I go to My Computer / Local Disc /Properties the disc is still the original one.Is there some way to make the system see the new one? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
theflash1932
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Posted August 21st, 2012 11:00
The partition on the disk will still be the same size as the one you cloned ... you need to expand the partition size in Disk Management. Right-click on [My] Computer, Manage, Disk Management ... you should see a chunk of Unallocated Space on the end of your new disk. Right-click the C: partition next to it, and Expand.
theflash1932
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Posted August 21st, 2012 11:00
Don't right-click the Unallocated Space ... right-click your C: partition - the assigned space to the left of the Unallocated Space.