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Created Partition on Hard Drive but now cannot access rest of HDD
Hello all,
I have a WD 750GB GB 2.5-INCH 5400 RPM SATA II HDD that I recently installed on my computer. When I attempted to do a clean install of windows, the windows setup could not find any drives. I formatted the HDD and created a primary partition. I admit I was rushing, and I clicked the partition (80GB) to install windows on.
I now only have 60GB of free space on my HDD, but what has happened to the rest of the 600+ GB on my hard drive? Can it not be accessed because the windows install is on the partition?
When I click on Computer, it only shows C: and it says I have 60.3 GB free of 87.3GB.
Is there a way of accessing this without having to clean install windows on the rest of the disk? I am worried that if I attempt to do it my windows 7 key won't work as I have already inputted it twice now. The HDD is 2 weeks old, so I would be surprised if it is already corrupt.
Thanks!