1 Topic by Gameovertime222

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Topic: Gparted isn't recoginizing my hard drive

I installed gparted onto a bootable USB Flash Drive in order to partition my C: Drive so I can install the new Windows 7 Beta. I'm using Windows XP Home Service Pack 2 with a 400gb hard drive. I have about 260 gb of free space and only really wanted to allocate about 15gb for Windows 7. I can properly boot to gparted but it only shows the partition for my USB Flash Drive. My Hard drive just isn't being detected. All that shows up is a drive thats ~2gb (my flash drive).

What am I doing wrong?

2 Reply by class413

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Re: Gparted isn't recoginizing my hard drive

Please, be sure to use the latest version.
(However, on some computers an older version could run without problem).

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*** It is highly recommended to backup any important files before doing resize/move operations. ***

3 Reply by cmdr

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Re: Gparted isn't recoginizing my hard drive

You know, how to change within the "GParted" window to the other storage devices ? "GParted" always shows only one drive in its GUI. At the right upper part of the window, you see a field with the actually shown device's name. There is a little arrow to click for the second and further drives. If you boot from an USB-Stick and have a SATA harddisk, there might be the situation, that your stick is device "sda" and your HDD is device "sdb".  "sda" is detected earlier and therefore shown as default.

If it really is missing:
Does "fdisk -l" in a Terminal window under "GParted"- Linux show the device names of your harddisk ?

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