I have a partition that is missing storage space. I got a 120 gig Maxtor hard drive and broke it into 3 partitions. A 12 gig for windows xp, a 12 gig for linux (i'll get to this in a moment), and the remaining 90+ for storage.
XP installed just fine, and it could see the partitions correctly. I then tried to install Suse Linux on the second 12 gig partition. The installation failed because certain files could not be copied. I went back into windows, and I noticed that the 90 gig partition had become a 30 gig. Somehow I lost about 60 gigs of storage.
The shrunken partition is NTFS. Is there a way to get back that lost space on the partition? I don't mind reformatting and installing windows again if I have to. No data was lost, the partition is empty.
XP installed just fine, and it could see the partitions correctly. I then tried to install Suse Linux on the second 12 gig partition. The installation failed because certain files could not be copied. I went back into windows, and I noticed that the 90 gig partition had become a 30 gig. Somehow I lost about 60 gigs of storage.
The shrunken partition is NTFS. Is there a way to get back that lost space on the partition? I don't mind reformatting and installing windows again if I have to. No data was lost, the partition is empty.