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Where's drive D gone? Advice?
Hello. I've just reinstalled 98 on an old Toshiba laptop. Even
before the last installation was gone there'd been a drive D, the hard drive in some way partitioned, something I don't completely understand on that particular machine. This is a 4 gig machine, but C is 2047 mbytes. Where has the rest gone and how do I get it back, better still, could I incorporate it into C or at least access it from Windows again? I've used fdisk from my boot floppy and see that C seems to be partitioned into 1 and 2, 1 has a status of A, Pri Dos, 2 is Ext Dos (1862 mbytes). Having just been through the reinstallation palaver, can I sort this out, entirely or in part, without wiping the hard drive? (Don't say no...) There are 4 options under Fdisk options - do options 1 or 3 come into this (create dos partition or ligical dos drive & delete partition or logical dos drive) I'd hoped when I wiped C and reinstalled that the full 4 gig would be visible. At the moment D seems to be the ramdrive my boot disk creates, but I'm sure this was once half the hard drive, although D also seems to be a 'logical dos drive'. E is the CD drive, A the floppy. (I don't know quite enough about this to know if you need telling this.) If someone could describe what I need to do in steps, preferably without downloading anything else, that'd be great. Thanks in advance. p.s. Could I split D then and put a small version of Linux on it? |
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