Hi,

I'm not sure I'm posting this to the right forum but here goes...

Early last week, I was using Partition Magic, my whole system crashed
and I lost everything.  Fortunately, I had made an image of my data
drive (D:) and have recovered almost all my data.

I had a dual-boot system with WinMe and WinXP.  I wanted to get rid of
the dual-boot and just use WinME.  Since I could find nowhere to
uninstall WinXP, I just deleted the data in the WinXP partition using
Partition Magic and then merged the 'empty' partition with the active
(C:) WinMe partition.  Bad mistake!!  When Partition Magic completed, my
system would no longer boot to any operating system.  I tried all the
boot disks that I had and I could see all the files in DOS but the
system would not boot.  It just hung up with a blank screen.  I finally
gave up and ran Fdisk and deleted all the partitions and reformatted
drive C:  I then installed WinXP home and eventually rebuilt most of my
system with WinXP.  I do agree with all who said that WinXP is a better
operating system.  It certainly does not freeze up as often as WinME.

Now, when I look at my hard disk in Partition Magic, it shows one
partition, C, and shows the correct size (about 40 Gigs) for the hard
drive.  When I look at Drive C: in WinXP, it shows the drive as only
having 30 Gigs total in Drive C.  I really need the 10 gig difference
between the two to partition as my data drive.  Is there anything that I
can do to recover the apparent loss of 10 gigs of space on my hard drive?

My system, now:  WinXP Home, 40 gig hard drive, Dell L800r, CD-RW drive,
floppy drive.

Thanks...

Loy

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