[roflcopter_1]

Hello all, I recently was taking linux off of my only hard drive. I used gparted to remove the partitions, and the linux and linux swap partitions were deleted. However, the ntfs partition (the one with Windows XP on it) was not resized. I guess ntfs is more picky, and if you haven't shut down you computer correctly, gparted can't do anything to it until you reboot twice. So, the two linux partitions were deleted, but the ntfs wasn't resized. Then, I used my windows xp cd's recovery console to fix the mbr. Once I was back in windows, I rebooted twice, and then started gparted again. Now though, my hard drive shows up as having only the capacity of the windows partition. The ~50 gb from the linux partitions don't even show up as part of the hard disk. How can I fix this?

 

[rollnw24inkmc]

id say wipe the whole hard drive clean, then reformat it and load windows.this can be done with a Windows CD, not recovery disc.

 

[bigbear]

What does it say in disk managment?
Go to start>run and type diskmgmt.msc and hit enter

 

[roflcopter_1]

id say wipe the whole hard drive clean, then reformat it and load windows.this can be done with a Windows CD, not recovery disc.

That's not really an option for me. The recovery console is on the Windows XP CD...

In disk managment, the bottom part says the hard disk is 149.05 gb(This is the full capacity of the hard disk.) But the top part says that its capacity is 107gb. The bottom part also has the dark blue "primary partition" line going all the way across.

 

[bigbear]

To be honest I have never heard of Gparted and am not sure what it has totaly done.
It has deleted the partition and windows does not recognize it as it needs to be formatted with ntfs.
As it stands you cant do this with out wiping the whole drive, this would lose everthing including the os.
I think your only option is to recreate a partition, this way you will be able to create a logical drive and format.
I would use Partition magic or Acronis True Image to create the partition