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Hard Drive size problem
Name: Dee Date: November 6, 2003 at 17:15:31 Pacific OS: Win98 CPU/Ram: 400
Comment:
I had to format my hd then installed dos then win 98. Win98 only recognizes 2 outof the 6 gigs. When I went through fdisk and i have one partition that is fat 16. Whats the best way to fix this and not lose everything again. Should I convert to fat 32 through windows. BTW it said it might take hours???
Name: Bo Date: November 6, 2003 at 17:23:14 Pacific
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Yes , switch to 32 it will cure ur problems
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Response Number 2
Name: Dee Date: November 6, 2003 at 17:45:04 Pacific
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okay i used the fat32 coversion in windows but it is still not picking up the full drive. Now what?
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Response Number 3
Name: smithdk Date: November 6, 2003 at 17:47:23 Pacific
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You can convert it to FAT32 but it will still only be 2 gigs. You could run fdisk again and create a second partition to use the remaining space (be sure to use FAT32).
If you just want one partition, then you would basically have to start over and remove and recreate your partition to use all of the space. Of course you would lose all data on the drive this way.
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Response Number 4
Name: ChrisG (by ChristopherTGarrett) Date: November 6, 2003 at 18:27:26 Pacific
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If you can get Partition magic that may fix your problem without looseing anyhting.Be very careful with partition magic though.One day i made a boo boo and everything on my harddrive went bye bye l.o.l
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Response Number 5
Name: mosaddique Date: November 7, 2003 at 01:20:55 Pacific
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There is also a freeware partition resizer you can use. This can be found at: http://www.zeleps.com/
I have not used it myself as I have partition magic but I have heard others have used it succesfully.
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