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Anonymous Posted on Aug 11, 2010

I have a SAMSUNG HM320JI (320GB). After loading Windows XP Proffesional, I found that the C Drive only has 116 GB assigned t it and the hard disk proerties (in Device Manager) shows 117 GB in "Unallocated Space". how can I increase the capacity of the C drive?

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To increase the capacity of formatted disk space on your computer, you will need to go to Disk Management. This can be found under the Control Panel, Administrative Tools, and Computer Management. Under the Control Panel's category view, Administrative Tools can be found under Performance and Maintenance.

On the left pane, you will see several options. Disk Management is available under Storage. You will definitely be able to format your unpartitioned space here. However, you may or may not be able to expand your C Drive space with this option, it may end up becoming a D Drive, or another letter of your choosing.

If this does not work to extend your C Drive space and adding a second drive letter is not an option for you, you can either reformat to receive the entire available disk space, or, if you prefer, there is commercial (such as Partition Magic), and potentially free, software available to perform this.

Please let me know if I can be of any additional help. Thanks!

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