Unable to populate volumes/find missing GiBs

Have you tried looking at the disk partitions using Disk Management?

"Dean Valentini" <figly_7777@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:FA2F92F1-4B55-4EBC-A6CD-837327106A69@microsoft.com...

>I recently installed the Vista 64 bit Beta 2 on my computer and have since
>discovered that I seem to be missing some space. I have two hard drives
>totaling 200GiB (one 120GiB, one 80GiB, both are SATA drives). However,
>when I add up the total of the partitions in Windows Explorer, I come up
>about 40GiB short. I believe the reason for this may have been that I
>neglected to create a final partition on each drive and just left the free
>space unallocated. When I am in Explorer, and go to Properties, Hardware,
>select one of the two hard drives, click Properties, Volumes, and try to
>populate the volumes, Windows confronts me with an alert that reads: "You
>can not populate the volumes on this disk. You are not an administrator or
>backup operator." Now, since I am the only account on the operating system,
>I would assume that I AM in fact the administrator. Unfortunately, Windows
>does not agree...can anyone help me out please?? How can I find the missing
>GiBs and make them accessable?

I recently installed the Vista 64 bit Beta 2 on my computer and have since
discovered that I seem to be missing some space. I have two hard drives
totaling 200GiB (one 120GiB, one 80GiB, both are SATA drives). However, when
I add up the total of the partitions in Windows Explorer, I come up about
40GiB short. I believe the reason for this may have been that I neglected to
create a final partition on each drive and just left the free space
unallocated. When I am in Explorer, and go to Properties, Hardware, select
one of the two hard drives, click Properties, Volumes, and try to populate
the volumes, Windows confronts me with an alert that reads: "You can not
populate the volumes on this disk. You are not an administrator or backup
operator." Now, since I am the only account on the operating system, I would
assume that I AM in fact the administrator. Unfortunately, Windows does not
agree...can anyone help me out please?? How can I find the missing GiBs and
make them accessable?