Topic: Help with locate/recover unallocated space
Found information on your product on the Dell Forum. Don't know if it is what I need to solve my problem and how I might go about it the correct way. History follows.
Copied a 80 gb drive to a W/D 250gb but did not realize the size limitation problem till months later. Finally I realize that the new drive was listed as 128gb healthy much to my surprise. The single hard drive XPH system had a old ata66 controller, was still fat32 adding still more to the problem. Updated the controller to a ata133, and converted the system to NTFS. Checked the disk management and it listed the drive as 128gb healthy and 107gb unallocated. I wanted to have the whole drive as one partition, but after reading and checking the internet I found that it could only be done with spending more money, so I finally decided to just create two partitions. Did several clean ups of the system, and finally went into disk management only to learn that the unallocated space was no longer listed there - gone. Ran chkdsk and found that it would only run part way into section two and restart & restart. Cleaned that problem up and finally ran the chkdsk /F section and found the error "free space marked as allocated in master file table bitmap". Ran the /F fix several time but it does not fix the error. When the system boots it shows the drive as 232gb, but when I go into disk management it only shows the 128gb, and no unallocated. I would like to locate the free space/unallocated section and partition it, or make it into one, but have been unable to find how and if this might be done.
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