Vista Hard drive help?

[bradconroy6]

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!

[Broni]

Go Start, and in "Start search" type in:
diskmgmt.msc
Hit Enter.

What does Disk Management tell you about the hard drive?

[bradconroy6]

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!

[Broni]

You're welcome