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Old May 27th 04, 06:10 PM
Rob
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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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Old May 27th 04, 07:00 PM
philo
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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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Old May 27th 04, 07:11 PM
Ron Badour
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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.

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Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
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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??



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Old May 27th 04, 07:45 PM
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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
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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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