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Incorrect hard drive size.
Name: src493 Date: February 11, 2005 at 03:39:43 Pacific OS: Win Me CPU/Ram: 1.3 / 256
Comment:
I have recently formatted the hard drive on a friends pc. I know the size of the drive is 6GB. When I run fdisk now the partition is reading the full 6GB and at FAT32. However when using windows and looking at the size of c: drive it is only reading 3GB does anyone know why.
Name: Badboy Date: February 11, 2005 at 06:06:13 Pacific
Reply:
How did you partition the drive with Fdisk?
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Response Number 2
Name: src493 Date: February 11, 2005 at 07:45:05 Pacific
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In the first instance I was having great trouble at boot up so I formatted the drive first and tried to load Win Me. I had difficulty with this. I then ran fdisk and deleted the main partition. I then tried to use two partitions but all hell broke loose so I decided to go through the whole process again. To be honest after another formatting I can't remember how I partitioned the drive. I managed to load Win Me and just checked the display part of fdisk which shows the c drive is 6GB using FAT 32 system.It is possible that it has something to do with me trying to create an extended partition but I can't understand why everything looks fine in fdisk.
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Response Number 3
Name: Rimfire Date: February 11, 2005 at 12:00:51 Pacific
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"all hell broke loose"!?
Seems that you have nearly created two partitions. You have created a primary partition of 3GB. So far so good.
Did you create an extended partition? If so, did you create any logical drives within the extended partition?
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Response Number 4
Name: OtheHill Date: February 11, 2005 at 14:41:57 Pacific
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If you haven't formatted the entire disk, it won't show up.
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Response Number 5
Name: src493 Date: February 13, 2005 at 13:51:28 Pacific
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When I run fdisk I get the following information Partition c:1, Status A, Type Pri DOS, vol.label (blank) mbytes 6230, System FAT32, Usage 100%. It won't allow me to create anything else. The only thing it will allow me to do is delete the primary dos partition.Yet when in Windows the c: drive is only reading 3.2GB ??
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