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Lost of Harddrive capacity (Urgent)
Name: dxh123 Date: August 26, 2003 at 14:00:36 Pacific OS: XP-win98 CPU/Ram: P3 400/128mb
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Hi
I have a problem with my harddrive. Under the XP OS, my harddrive was partition with a C and a D: drive. I wanted to go back to an earlier version of windows, (98) so I reinstalled with the 98 WIN OS but now my harddrive is only reading 2gb, where I once had a capacity of 8gb.
Does anyone know what the problem might be. Just a guess, but could i have accidently created another partition and installed Win 98 on this new 2gb partition. If so, how would I get back the rest or unpartition this mess. Old data not a major concern.
Name: gabep Date: August 26, 2003 at 14:08:10 Pacific
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Was the HD NTFS when it was XP?
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Response Number 2
Name: ok Date: August 26, 2003 at 14:14:39 Pacific
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you'll have to fdisk, and answer yes Do you wish to enable large disk support? then remove any extended partitions, then remove primary partition, then add primary dos partition, choose maximum for it, reboot to set active, when prompted. then format ,it should now format to its full capacity. then reinstall windows.
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Response Number 3
Name: dxh123 Date: August 26, 2003 at 14:25:58 Pacific
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my c: drive was NTFS and D was FAT32 for some reason...would this make sense?
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Response Number 4
Name: dxh123 Date: August 26, 2003 at 14:30:38 Pacific
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Hi OK,
I tried FDISK and attempted to delete the extended and primary partitions but it said I there are non.
The current system says FAT16? ????
Thanks,
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Response Number 5
Name: gabep Date: August 26, 2003 at 14:35:11 Pacific
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Try going to HD manufacturer website and download the installation program for your HD.
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Response Number 6
Name: stonar Date: August 26, 2003 at 14:40:53 Pacific
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change to fat32 when you fdisk, i beleive 2gig is max for fat16
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Response Number 7
Name: dxh123 Date: August 26, 2003 at 14:42:15 Pacific
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thanks, Give it a shot...
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Response Number 8
Name: dxh123 Date: August 26, 2003 at 14:44:27 Pacific
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Stonar,
Sorry for the dump question but how would I do that with FDISK? I tried but..?
Thanks,
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Response Number 9
Name: ok Date: August 26, 2003 at 20:06:22 Pacific
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http://www.russelltexas.com/delpart.htm download delpart.exe to a floppy and then run it, then fdisk choose yes for large disk support (fat32) then add primary dos partition choose maximum, set active reboot, format c: then reinstall windows 98, or xp. how to use fdisk
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Response Number 10
Name: stonar Date: August 27, 2003 at 04:53:16 Pacific
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you wouldn't happen to be using an old win95 bootdisk would you? i have seen some that only seemed to do fat16. if so get a win98 bootdisk from http://www.bootdisk.com
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