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07-25-2005, 10:25 PM
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pie chart problem
this win98 machine is showing the disk space pie chart as almost full when it doesn't have more than 1gb on it. I can't seem to find any answers to this by googling.???
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07-25-2005, 10:27 PM
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Are you sure it's not a partition (piece of the drive) and not the entire drive that you're seeing? Just a shot in the dark, but I think worth asking.
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07-25-2005, 10:29 PM
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I just realised I posted in the wrong forum! This is a win98 machine. anyway, no there's only one partition (FAT32).
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07-26-2005, 12:27 AM
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i didn't use fdisk to set up the system to use large drives. I guess this is the problem.
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07-26-2005, 05:19 AM
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19 Oct 97 Bug #5: Hard Disk usage pie chart:
It seems that the hard disk usage pie chart (right click on a hard drive, select properties) hasn't been updated to deal with single partitions over 2GB. If the partition is greater than 2GB, the pie chart will show the drive as all empty until the drive has more than 2GB full. This bug has no practical significance.
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07-26-2005, 05:37 AM
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can I use fdisk to enable large disk support without reformatting??
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07-26-2005, 05:42 AM
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oh and the bug you presented is showing the reverse of what is happening. The show is showing as almost full. So I guess this is a fdisk issue?? Reformatting maybe.
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07-26-2005, 06:31 AM
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What size is the hard drive?
If you go to a DOS prompt and type: CHKDSK how much USED space and how much FREE space does it show? |
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07-26-2005, 04:45 PM
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If you did not enable large disk support, the partition you are looking at is no more than 2.1gb. That's the largest a FAT16 partition can be made. You can convert to FAT32 nondestructively with a Windows utility (caution - VERY slow, will take hours), but you cannot make the partition larger without Partition Magic or some other nondestructive partitioning tool.
How about posting exactly what the numbers next to the pie chart say for capacity, used space, and free space? EzyStvy: That bug was in Win95B, it was fixed in 98FE. |
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