only 1.99 gb storage

Hi can anyone give me some advice - I recently reinstalled
windows 98 to my pc after it wiped all of the files one
day !
I have a 20gb hard drive but im getting a message that the
disk is full, when I look at the C: drive it only shows
1.99 gb, can anyone help please.

Phil M
UK

When you reinstalled windows you did not enable large drive support(fat32), so
2gb(fat16 maximum) is all you got, however the rest is recoverable using fdisk
to create a logical drive in the unallocated space, consider also converting
the c: drive to fat32 which will release some slack space on the drive, do not
use fdisk to change the existing c: partition as you will lose any information
on the c: partition that you have not backed up, you could consider
reinstalling with large drive support.

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"Phil" wrote in message
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| Hi can anyone give me some advice - I recently reinstalled
| windows 98 to my pc after it wiped all of the files one
| day !
| I have a 20gb hard drive but im getting a message that the
| disk is full, when I look at the C: drive it only shows
| 1.99 gb, can anyone help please.
|
| Phil M
| UK

Hi Phill,

Large disk support was not selected when the disk was partitioned
using Fdisk.

Here's a work around to resize the partition without loosing data.

Use the built-in utility to convert from Fat16 to Fat32.

Resize the partition to it's full size using Bootit NG.

Start BING and click on Maintenance.
Click on Partition Work
Select the partition to resize
Click Resize then OK ("Checking for errors" will appear)
Click Resize and choose the new size
A Warning to back-up all important data will be displayed
Click Continue
When completed, click Close and Close again
Reboot and that should do it.

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http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/

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"Phil" wrote
Hi can anyone give me some advice - I recently reinstalled
windows 98 to my pc after it wiped all of the files one
day !
I have a 20gb hard drive but im getting a message that the
disk is full, when I look at the C: drive it only shows
1.99 gb, can anyone help please.

Phil M
UK