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Old June 10th 04, 09:35 AM
Peter
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Thanks Jeff, you are probably correct, it looks like I
have got only 1 GB Hard disk space. What do you suggest
that I do?
Thanks in anticipation
Peter
-----Original Message-----
Right-click the drive icon in My Computer and look at

Properties - what is
the total partition size? If you only reformatted,

then the partition size
should not have changed. If you also deleted and re-

created the partition,
then you might have answered N to the question about

large hard disk drive
support in FDISK. In that case, if you accepted the

FDISK defaults then you
would have got a 2GB partition, which might translate to

741MB free after
installation.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"Peter" wrote in

message
...
I have just reformatted and reloaded 98 on my machine. I
have a 40 gig hard drive, but after the reload the disk
space was only 741 Megs. What have I done wrong -

Please
help



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Old June 10th 04, 11:14 PM
Jeff Richards
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Default Lost space

There are third party products that you can use to change partition size,
but since you have just re-installed the system it is probably easiest to do
the re-install again. Bit this time start with FDISK, remove all existing
partitions and create new ones as you want them. My preference for a disk
that size would be a primary partition of under 8Gb and two logical drives
in the extended partition, but you can choose what suits your needs best.
The important thing is that when you start FDISK make sure you answer Y to
the question about large hard disk drive support.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"Peter" wrote in message
...
Thanks Jeff, you are probably correct, it looks like I
have got only 1 GB Hard disk space. What do you suggest
that I do?
Thanks in anticipation
Peter
-----Original Message-----
Right-click the drive icon in My Computer and look at

Properties - what is
the total partition size? If you only reformatted,

then the partition size
should not have changed. If you also deleted and re-

created the partition,
then you might have answered N to the question about

large hard disk drive
support in FDISK. In that case, if you accepted the

FDISK defaults then you
would have got a 2GB partition, which might translate to

741MB free after
installation.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"Peter" wrote in

message
.. .
I have just reformatted and reloaded 98 on my machine. I
have a 40 gig hard drive, but after the reload the disk
space was only 741 Megs. What have I done wrong -

Please
help



.



 




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