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| Thread ID: 22707 | 2002-07-28 06:22:00 | Win98 Formatted 40Gb hard drive as 4Gb | mike773 (978) | Press F1 |
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| 66172 | 2002-07-28 06:22:00 | I was setting up a "new" PC for my parents recently and the new beast had a 40Gb hard drive instead of their old 4Gb. I did a complete reinstall of everything (including the OS - Win98SE) and used a Win98 (or maybe it was WinMe?) boot disk to FDISK and format the 40Gb drive. FDISK reported it as 40Gb so I though we were in business. But now (a few weeks later) I have just noticed that Win98 explorer shows it with a 4Gb capacity only. Weird! FDISK still reports the full size - as does Partition Magic (albeit an older version). Actually Partition Magic shows 100% usage by FAT32x. Even stranger (to me). Does anyone know a) what went wrong & b) can it be fixed? Or am I looking at another format and rebuild? (God I hope not!) Thanks in advance Mike |
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| 66173 | 2002-07-28 06:41:00 | Whoops....sorry about that. Should make sure I search the MS site properly first, shouldn't I. INIT13..etc.. Damn! Looks like it's either buy a new version of Partition Magic or a nice re-do.... Cheers Mike |
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| 66174 | 2002-07-28 07:18:00 | just try reformating again and try reinstalling the OS again, it might work, cheers, v.K----------- :D |
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