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40g hard drive shows as 1.9g
Hey I have two hard drives one of them is 20G and the
other is 40G (this is my secondary hard drive). When I was insatlling win 98. The software formateted the 20G hard drive, and no problem. And then it told me I had to format the 40G as well. I was ask If I wanted to activate large disk support or something like that. I chose no. When I started formating, the computer frozed, and since then the Bios recognizes a 40G hard drive but not windows. Now I'm runing on XP and I still have the same problem. Windows Xp recognizes it in fat32 format But still reads 1.99 G. I trying reformating it. I even tryed switching it to the master drive and intalling win 98. Still my problem does not end. Please HELP!!!!! YOU CAN ANSWER ME AT |
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40g hard drive shows as 1.9g
When you partitioned the drive you selected No to large drives. Thus, the
maximum partition size was limited to about 2GB. If you look at the drive using fdisk in win98 (fdisk /status from a dos prompt) or Start -settings --Control panel -- Administrative tools --computer management -- disk management in winXP, it is likely you will see the remaing space of the 40GB drive as unused space. You can generate another partition and format it -- Jon Hildrum DTS MVP www.hildrum.com "Alfredo Pacini" wrote in message ... Hey I have two hard drives one of them is 20G and the other is 40G (this is my secondary hard drive). When I was insatlling win 98. The software formateted the 20G hard drive, and no problem. And then it told me I had to format the 40G as well. I was ask If I wanted to activate large disk support or something like that. I chose no. When I started formating, the computer frozed, and since then the Bios recognizes a 40G hard drive but not windows. Now I'm runing on XP and I still have the same problem. Windows Xp recognizes it in fat32 format But still reads 1.99 G. I trying reformating it. I even tryed switching it to the master drive and intalling win 98. Still my problem does not end. Please HELP!!!!! YOU CAN ANSWER ME AT |
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40g hard drive shows as 1.9g
In addition to what Jon said, you could also just start over using fdisk and
delete the partition but when creating a new one, say YES instead of NO to the first question. You could also enlarge the partition with a partitioning program--here is the one I use: 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 "Alfredo Pacini" wrote in message ... Hey I have two hard drives one of them is 20G and the other is 40G (this is my secondary hard drive). When I was insatlling win 98. The software formateted the 20G hard drive, and no problem. And then it told me I had to format the 40G as well. I was ask If I wanted to activate large disk support or something like that. I chose no. When I started formating, the computer frozed, and since then the Bios recognizes a 40G hard drive but not windows. Now I'm runing on XP and I still have the same problem. Windows Xp recognizes it in fat32 format But still reads 1.99 G. I trying reformating it. I even tryed switching it to the master drive and intalling win 98. Still my problem does not end. Please HELP!!!!! YOU CAN ANSWER ME AT |
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