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Change in HDD size reporting
Replaced a crashed drive with a new one same size (40GB)
and installed the OS, drivers, and software with no problems. Disk size was reported correctly and Scandisk and Defrag ran without a problem. I tried to install a new program today and I get a "not enough disk space" error. When I go to check my disk space it shows only 136 MB available and a total disk space of 1.99 GB and 1.86 GB used. What happened and how can I fix it without having to reformat and installing everything again?? |
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"Rob" wrote in message ... Replaced a crashed drive with a new one same size (40GB) and installed the OS, drivers, and software with no problems. Disk size was reported correctly and Scandisk and Defrag ran without a problem. I tried to install a new program today and I get a "not enough disk space" error. When I go to check my disk space it shows only 136 MB available and a total disk space of 1.99 GB and 1.86 GB used. What happened and how can I fix it without having to reformat and installing everything again?? you probably did not notice at the time but you evidently failed to enable large drive support...so originally just created a fat16 2 gig drive you have three choices: 1) delelte everything using fdisk then recreate. jusr be sure to enable large drive support 2) run fdisk and create add'l partitons (logical) 3) use a 3rd party utility such as partition magic to convert and resize |
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Agree with Philo except for the PMagic recommendation--it costs too much.
BootIt Next Generation is available from: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ and it does partitioning, makes a compressed image, does many other partitioning chores and is a boot manager. It is not quite as easy to use as Partition Magic but it is half the cost and has more features. Unlike the crippled PMagic demo, BING is a *full function* demo you can try for free for 30 days. The web site has a lot of support articles. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Rob" wrote in message ... Replaced a crashed drive with a new one same size (40GB) and installed the OS, drivers, and software with no problems. Disk size was reported correctly and Scandisk and Defrag ran without a problem. I tried to install a new program today and I get a "not enough disk space" error. When I go to check my disk space it shows only 136 MB available and a total disk space of 1.99 GB and 1.86 GB used. What happened and how can I fix it without having to reformat and installing everything again?? |
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Thanks for the help Philo but the drive properties shows
up as a FAT32 c/w large disk support. That's what's so puzzling. I have an older version of Partition Magic and will give that a try. Thanks Ron, for your suggestion on BootIt Next Generation. Sounds like an interesting piece of software and will go have a look. Rob -----Original Message----- "Rob" wrote in message ... Replaced a crashed drive with a new one same size (40GB) and installed the OS, drivers, and software with no problems. Disk size was reported correctly and Scandisk and Defrag ran without a problem. I tried to install a new program today and I get a "not enough disk space" error. When I go to check my disk space it shows only 136 MB available and a total disk space of 1.99 GB and 1.86 GB used. What happened and how can I fix it without having to reformat and installing everything again?? you probably did not notice at the time but you evidently failed to enable large drive support...so originally just created a fat16 2 gig drive you have three choices: 1) delelte everything using fdisk then recreate. jusr be sure to enable large drive support 2) run fdisk and create add'l partitons (logical) 3) use a 3rd party utility such as partition magic to convert and resize . |
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