HP Pavilion drive problems

[bosshog]

I recently purchased a pavilion 7560 pc with a 300gb hard drive but when I started up the drives were configured wrong with the recovery drive being 300gb and the operating drive being 18gb. so I created recovery disk and wiped the 300gb drive which is now empty but windows is installed on the 18gb drive which is still the primary C drive how do I switch to the 300gb drive becomes the defualt C drive

[tempus]

Originally Posted by bosshog I recently purchased a pavilion 7560 pc with a 300gb hard drive but when I started up the drives were configured wrong with the recovery drive being 300gb and the operating drive being 18gb. so I created recovery disk and wiped the 300gb drive which is now empty but windows is installed on the 18gb drive which is still the primary C drive how do I switch to the 300gb drive becomes the defualt C drive

Find out which brand of drive it is, download the software from the manufacturer, and do a zero fill format to wipe out everything on the drive.

[glc]

Do you have 2 physical hard drives, or is it a single 320gb drive with 2 partitions?

Tempus - that recommendation is not appropriate - yet. Let's find out some more exact details and what the poster really wants to do. I've never heard of HP only using a 18gb partition for the OS.

[bosshog]

it was supposed to be a 18gb partition for recovery and 280gb for os but they were configured backwards so the os was put into the 18gb with recovery on the 280gb partition i have read reviews for the type of pc i had looking for why i only had 18gb of storage and i saw that this has happened before so i made the recovery disk and wiped the 280gb drive but i want to know how do i reverse it so my os is on the 280gb partition as it should be

[tempus]

Originally Posted by bosshog it was supposed to be a 18gb partition for recovery and 280gb for os but they were configured backwards so the os was put into the 18gb with recovery on the 280gb partition i have read reviews for the type of pc i had looking for why i only had 18gb of storage and i saw that this has happened before so i made the recovery disk and wiped the 280gb drive but i want to know how do i reverse it so my os is on the 280gb partition as it should be

I don't know if you have partition magic but with that you could change the partition size.

[glc]

If your recovery disks work, you can totally wipe the drive with Killdisk or Darik's Boot & Nuke - you won't have *any* partitions left. The recovery disks should repartition correctly.