Okay, so I'm running an HP Pavilion Entertainment PC with a SAMSUNG HM250JI hard drive (250 gb). I don't know very much about computers so forgive me if I leave out important info. I had XP installed for a year, and today I decided to reformat and install VISTA. When I bought my laptop I had XP installed, so I just used the Vista recovery disks Futureshop gave me. I restarted and booted with them, and everything seemed to work great. The problem I am having is that now Vista is telling me my hard drive has only 32 gb total, when I should have a lot more (I know Vista is big but seriously...). I have tried changing the system restore settings and that didn't help at all. I was wondering if it's possible that my computer didn't actually reformat and just add Vista on or something? Any help would be REALLY appreciate... thanks!Go Start, and in "Start search" type in:
diskmgmt.msc
Hit Enter.

What does Disk Management tell you about the hard drive?That actually solved my problem, thanks a lot! I FOUND the other volume (?) of my hard drive and was able to extend the first part into the rest, thanks for the help! You're welcome