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Thread ID: 14906	2002-01-22 08:04:00	FDISK - lost HD space...	Guest (0)	Press F1

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32402	2002-01-22 08:04:00	Hi all, Have got a 40G HD here that will only show 5,900 meg. It had a botched install of XP and the drive was formatted in NTFS, trying to install 98se onto it but it said it didnt have a valid FAT or FAT32 file system, so I used FDISK and created a partition in FAT32, only to end up with 5,400 meg, looking at the partition info in FDISK I seen it still had a partition of NTFS, so I deleted that and deleted the FAT32 one as well and then created a new Primary DOS Partition, but, only ended up with 5,900 meg. Whats happened to the other 34 Gig?? I have treid numerous times to delete and create a new Primary Partition but still end up missing 34 Gig. Help!! Please. Regards, Ken.	Guest (0)
32403	2002-01-22 08:21:00	Did you reformat the drive after the botched install?? I had a similair problem and after enabling large disk support and then created a primary and secondary partitions. Only then was fdisk giving me a true report on my HD size. Try starting from scratch and reformat then create a new primary partition. You will probably also need to create a couple of secondary partitions also. Not just to help your puter but for your own ease of use too....40g is a big drive.	Guest (0)
32404	2002-01-22 09:13:00	A bit of a silly question, but have you got a BIOS capable of recognising a 40Gb drive?	Guest (0)
32405	2002-01-23 01:09:00	Yip, BIOS knows what it is. It (XP) had formatted it in NTFS, but when I went to put FAT32 and Win98se on it I only got 5,900 Meg out of it. Have tried things from the start agin, deleting all partitions and creating a new Primary of 4000 Meg and Ext DOS of 1,900, that went ok, but still missing 36 Gig somewhere :( If I try and create a partition exceeding the stated size it wont do it. Ken.	Guest (0)
32406	2002-01-23 01:46:00	IBM give away a programme which clears the first sectors of a disk so it looks like a 'fresh out of the factory' one. Use the search window on this page: 'zap.exe' and click on the 'PressF1' button and 'Go'. Click on my posting dated 14/12/2001.	Guest (0)
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