[GLENPTG]

I lost 40G off a 140G HDD after I preformed a system recovery. How can I retrieve the lost space?

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Hello, and welcome to Geeks To Go.
Do you see only one partition on the drive?
If you do not have Large drive support enabled 137 GB of space will be on one partition, and the rest on another partition.

[hfcg]

Hello, and welcome to Geeks To Go.
Do you see only one partition on the drive?
If you do not have Large drive support enabled 137 GB of space will be on one partition, and the rest on another partition.

[GLENPTG]

There is only one partion for recovery 9G. C:\ has 49G out of 132G

[hfcg]

I lost 40G off a 140G HDD after I preformed a system recovery. How can I retrieve the lost space?

This says that you have 100 GB showing.

There is only one partition for recovery 9G. C:\ has 49G out of 132G

And this says that you have 49GB showing.
I am unsure of what you are experiencing.

[GLENPTG]

Ok. This is whats going on. I was having some problems with my computer (Compaq Presario)
So I rebooted and utilized the "System Recovery" option. Once all the smoke settled, my HD only had 49G (it's a 140G HD). No recovery partition was created only a partion that states LOCAL DRIVE D: which contains 9G of space. If there is a way to enable large HD support it dosen't indicate. The procedure of recovery is automatic. Only have to change fron disk 1 to disk 2 as asked.

[hfcg]

The 9GB drive D will be your recovery partition.
Can you check to see what File system you are using?

• Click on the start button.
• Select My computer.
• Right click on the C drive
• Select properties.
• Look for the File system

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[GLENPTG]

Thank you for your time and input. What I did was create another volume drive for the unallocated 90GB.Partions partions partitions.all over the place ha ha. I was attempting you use C:\ for the whole 160 GB.This will work for now.