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| 271011 | 2004-09-10 10:30:00 | I am playing with an old computer [P100 RAM 48Mb]. It has a 3Gb HD [Quantum Fireball series 3.5] that is partitioned 2/3, 1/3. I have tried to get rid of the partition using FDISK but it will not budge so the simple thing to do is to leave it and use both sections. The problem is that the second section, which should be D: drive, does not show up in 'My Computer' or in 'FDISK/STATUS'. Can anyone tell me how to make it show up and become operational? |
IanS (924) | ||
| 271012 | 2004-09-10 10:44:00 | What version of Windows?? 98? | Spacemannz (808) | ||
| 271013 | 2004-09-10 11:21:00 | > I am playing with an old computer [P100 RAM 48Mb]. 'My > Computer' or in 'FDISK/STATUS'. > Can anyone tell me how to make it show up and > nd become operational? What about in fdisk in dos? |
drb1 (4492) | ||
| 271014 | 2004-09-10 12:14:00 | Is this an old brand name computer, is the partition NTFS rather than DOS/FAT? I came across a similar problem on an old comp that had a hidden partition. I had to deleted all partitons rebuild and format from scratch using fdisk. Another option would be to use Partition Magic if you can lay your hands on it or Ranish Partition Manager (http://www.ranish.com/) which should handle most things thrown at it. Cheers Murray P |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 271015 | 2004-09-10 21:54:00 | I'm just taking a guess here, but if the Primary partition is 2/3 of a 3Gb drive (2Gb), would it somehow be tied up with the 2Gb bios limitation on older computers. Does the drive show up correctly in the bios settings as 3Gb? |
4bes (2848) | ||
| 271016 | 2004-09-10 23:15:00 | My old computer had a 2.1GB Quantum Fireball and it developed a couple of bad sectors. Technie at the time said the majority of the Quantum fireball HDs were useless but NZ kept installing them anyway. However, he partitioned the hard drive in such a way that it blocked the bad sectors into 1 partition so that the other partition had no bad sectors, hopefully so that my computer would stop crashing/not working. That hard drive was a pain right from the start. Maybe this is why your other partition is not showing? Marg. |
pulling hair out (4493) | ||
| 271017 | 2004-09-10 23:34:00 | Sorry I slipped in not specifying the OS. It is Win98 1st Ed FDISK in DOS only shows 2Gb. 4bes, yes you could be right about the limitation of an old BIOS system but it shows up correctly in the BIOS settings as 3Gb. The problem remains, how do I get access to the remaining 1Gb as a D: drive?? I had this problem in another not-so-old computer. It has a 4Gb HD but it only showed as 2GB until I tried to run a faulty copied CD. Then, for unknown reasons, the missing 2Gb showed up as a D: drive!!! The faulty CD has been thrown away so I cannot use it again, but it shows that there is a way of getting access to the hidden part of the HD. I hope some one can come up with the answer. |
IanS (924) | ||
| 271018 | 2004-09-10 23:46:00 | as already suggested, put ranish onto a win98 boot disk and that will display all the partitions. if the partition is hidden you can take off the hidden tag. if there is unused space you can partition and format it and you will have your d drive. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 271019 | 2004-09-11 01:14:00 | What partition type are you using? FAT16 only supports up to 2gb, while FAT32 and NTFS support massive drives Daniel |
dwnz2003 (5250) | ||
| 271020 | 2004-09-11 01:23:00 | I had this prob many years ago with an old PC. Only way I could get round it was to use the low level format in the system bios. | antmannz (28) | ||
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