OK, DM is from Seagate. Does your Seagate DM boot or do you boot on another floppy and then put in the DM disk? If DM boots, what version OS is it booting? M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

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DM boots on its own after reboot and it doesnt use windows or other o/s like win98 boot disk does. Its a seagate hdd s/w and its version is 9.1.6 something. thanks

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I think the 110G reported in disk management is just a quick of w2k. But if this DM disk is the one which belongs with the drive, I think the write error is a concern. Is this a nearly new drive? M2 If at first you don't succeed, you're about average.

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You are basing every conclusion on Seagates Disk Manager. Perhaps looking at the drive with a different utility like the new version of Fdisk might shed some light? I have seen W2K leave 8meg [not gig] as available on a new disk using Install to parition the drive. This is a bug. I fixed it by using fdisk first to partition to the entire drive and then installed w2k with no partitioning just formatting. Perhaps you may want to follow this procedure so you know you have the full disk.

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the situation continues to be same inspite of efforts and suggestions. can some saviour save my lost disk space plzzz

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I have used the seagate DM myself ,, It is considered a third party disk partioning tool , It uses a different alogrithim than windows IE:1024mb=1gb vs. seagate. where 1 gb = 1gb the utility also allows the setting of hard drive size where the hard drive size is detected through the LBA... Logical Block addressing... These #'s are shown in the utility and the recommended size is also shown... Have you tried doing that yet! The harddrive should have on it the #'s ,, the only time I've had that problem was after a linux install ... have to run recovery ,,, console and run fixmbr , and ( not sure if recovery console will or not)_ run or use fdisk /mbr Although that is not the case here,,, My 120 gig drive shows up as 111 gb from being formatted with windows.... this is due to the windows using the 1024 to 1 gb..... Hope this answers your question,,, Seagates drive utility if you allow it will show a larger hardrive size than a windows formatted drive ,, In the install process for windows 2000 you should be able to leave file system intact after formating with DM and that would be the larger size.. MSI 845e mb 768 mb ram and a p4 2.4n running xp ,win 2000 advanced server and win 98 SE alot to learn and I know so little !!!!

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The "problem" is a simple one of calculation and how one defines and calculates gb. If you look in windows it will give you gb and also give you the number of bytes. Since bytes are to the power of 2 then strictly speaking 1kb = 2 to the power of 10 = 1024 AND NOT 1000 bytes. In the same way 1mb = 1024 kb or 1024 x 1024 bytes = 1,048,576 bytes and not 1 million bytes. Similaraly 1gb = 1024 mb (NOT 1000 MB) so 1gb = 1024 x 1024 x1024 bytes which is 1,073,741,824 Therefore if you have a 40 gb hard drive this really means 40,007,729,152 bytes If you divide this by 1024, and again by 1024 and again by 1024 you get about 37.26 gb as correctly calculated in powers of 2. Most people, however, just divide by powers of 10 instead and call it 40 gb. So nothing is lost, no odd things, no allocation tables. It's just arithmetic and definition!!!

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