Lost hard drive space

I installed windowsXP and had problems with it, so I
reformated and went back to windows 98.In doing so I went
from 17GB to 1.99GB. Is there a way to fix it?
Thank you.

You probably formatted the drive with fat 16 (limited to partitions of 2 gb)
instead of fat 32. To verify, right click C: drive, properties and see what
file system is listed (fat is fat 16). Assuming you have fat 16, you can
use fdisk to remove the fat 16 partition and recreate a fat 32 partition
(all files lost) or you can use a partitioning program to resize the
partition. 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.

For information on installing W98, go to:
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w98_restore.html


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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

"Clay" wrote in message
...
I installed windowsXP and had problems with it, so I
reformated and went back to windows 98.In doing so I went
from 17GB to 1.99GB. Is there a way to fix it?
Thank you.

-----Original Message-----
You probably formatted the drive with fat 16 (limited to
partitions of 2 gb)
instead of fat 32. To verify, right click C: drive,
properties and see what
file system is listed (fat is fat 16). Assuming you have
fat 16, you can
use fdisk to remove the fat 16 partition and recreate a
fat 32 partition
(all files lost) or you can use a partitioning program to
resize the
partition. 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.

For information on installing W98, go to:
http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w98_restore.html


--
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

"Clay" wrote in
message
...
I installed windowsXP and had problems with it, so I
reformated and went back to windows 98.In doing so I
went
from 17GB to 1.99GB. Is there a way to fix it?
Thank you.

Thanks! I did have it to Fat 16 but I already changed to
Fat 32. It didn't help. I will try the other steps. I do
appreciate your responce.
.

You missed part of Ron's message, he didnt tell you to merely change the
partition to fat32 he said Recreate using Fat32, or Resize using a partition
manager.
When you created the fat16 partition it has a maximum size of 2GB, Changeing a
2GB fat16 partition to fat32 makes a 2GB fat32 partition, recreateing fat32
partition with fdisk large drive support allows the entire drive to be a
single fat32 partition as does resizing the partition with BootItNG or other
utility.
Not recreating/resizing leaves you with the remainder of the drive empty, in
which you can do nothing as now, or create a second partition to be drive d:
or which you can do as Ron suggested and put back into the primary partition
and use the space

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"Clay" wrote in message
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|
| -----Original Message-----
| You probably formatted the drive with fat 16 (limited to
| partitions of 2 gb)
| instead of fat 32. To verify, right click C: drive,
| properties and see what
| file system is listed (fat is fat 16). Assuming you have
| fat 16, you can
| use fdisk to remove the fat 16 partition and recreate a
| fat 32 partition
| (all files lost) or you can use a partitioning program to
| resize the
| partition. 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.
|
| For information on installing W98, go to:
| http://home.satx.rr.com/badour/html/w98_restore.html
|
|
| --
| 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
|
| "Clay" wrote in
| message
| ...
| I installed windowsXP and had problems with it, so I
| reformated and went back to windows 98.In doing so I
| went
| from 17GB to 1.99GB. Is there a way to fix it?
| Thank you.
|
| Thanks! I did have it to Fat 16 but I already changed to
| Fat 32. It didn't help. I will try the other steps. I do
| appreciate your responce.
| .
|