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| 255086 | 2004-07-24 13:20:00 | I deleted all the partitions (2) of an old celeron 400 machine and when loading the OS (XP Home), it detected only 12 GB of HDD space; but it is a 20 GB HDD! where has the other 8 GB gone to? BIOS is set to autodetect. Any idea why? |
bk T (215) | ||
| 255087 | 2004-07-24 19:03:00 | perhaps it has a 13Gb drive bios limit and it was previously running DDO software, (dynamic drive overlay), to 'fool' the bios etc and now since you deleted the partitions that software has gone west lol.............goto the hdd manufacturers site and download whatever software they offer in that line ? | drcspy (146) | ||
| 255088 | 2004-07-24 19:04:00 | either that or havig deleted the partitions you didn't recreate them quite right | drcspy (146) | ||
| 255089 | 2004-07-24 23:12:00 | > either that or havig deleted the partitions you > didn't recreate them quite right Well, it's when I was setting up Windows and during the process, I deleted all those partitions (looks as if I really physically deleted the 8 GB of Hdd space!) but after that Windows setup did not detect the the actual size of the HDD. I ran fdisk (boot from A: using Win98 boot disk) but it didn't help. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 255090 | 2004-07-25 04:51:00 | Use the W98 to renove all partitions, and see if the XP one makes a better job of it. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 255091 | 2004-07-25 05:50:00 | Right click My Computer, select Manage to open Computer Management. In the left pane select Disk management to display the status of your disk drives. You will be able to see the partition and format info for your disk. The missing 8gig may just be unallocated space | Davesdad (923) | ||
| 255092 | 2004-07-25 05:55:00 | > Use the W98 to renove all partitions, That's what I did - used Win98's fdisk to remove the partitions but still can't find the lost disk space ?:| Performing a low level format will help?? |
bk T (215) | ||
| 255093 | 2004-07-25 06:19:00 | did you note what I said ? have you also used fdisk to check the partitions and try to use all the hdd space? |
drcspy (146) | ||
| 255094 | 2004-07-25 08:36:00 | > Right click My Computer, select Manage to open > Computer Management. In the left pane select Disk > management to display the status of your disk drives. > You will be able to see the partition and format info > for your disk. The missing 8gig may just be > unallocated space No. Have checked and the 8 gb isn't there. |
bk T (215) | ||
| 255095 | 2004-07-25 08:38:00 | > ... > have you also used fdisk to check the partitions and > try to use all the hdd space? Done all that! Maybe it's time to get a new HDD? |
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