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04-20-2003, 04:43 PM
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Question on Partitioning and HDD space?
Hi, my computers been acting up lately so I decided I was gonna reformat and possibly create some extended partitions. When I entered FDISK I had one primary partition C:\ at 10,460 megabites, but I have an 80 gig Western Digital that I've been using. Windows sees it all and the bios also shows 80 gig.
So I deleted it and created another primary and again it only shows 10,000 meg. I know windows will use the space because I had like 25 gig of games and stuff on here this morning. What's going on? |
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04-20-2003, 08:59 PM
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what operating system, which Windows
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04-20-2003, 09:12 PM
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Quick answer, since I think you're still here on the forum: there's a bug in the older versions of fdisk with drives over 64gb. I'll see if I can find the download link for the new fdisk & post it on here as an edit. [you see only 10gb because the old fdisk subtracts 64gb or so from the 80gb]
. . . Gary here's the info link at Microsoft's Knowledge Base: http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;263044 and here's a download link for the updated fdisk: http://radified.com/Files/ . . . (and look in the group on the right-hand side - might scan these with antivirus, just to be safe) (there are also download links on the Knowledge Base article, but I think they require a running version of Windows) Last edited by GaryRouth; 04-20-2003 at 09:28 PM. |
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04-20-2003, 09:15 PM
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Member (6 bit)
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Windows 98se
P4 2.4 768 DDR 2100 GForce4 Ti 4200 ECS Motherboard L4S8A2 SiS chipset Western Digital 80 gig 7200rpm 8mb buffer Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card I went ahead and resetup windows and everythings working all right and I have 77 gig or so. But still when I FDISK it shows I only have 10,000 Mbts, and if I try to create another drive it says there's only like 200 megabyts available. I could just leave it but it would be nice to create another drive and it's sort of the princeaple of the thing. Why? Last edited by KAD; 04-20-2003 at 09:35 PM. |
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04-20-2003, 09:17 PM
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Member (6 bit)
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Okay I'll be around. Thanks
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04-21-2003, 09:57 AM
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Get the updated fdisk.
Instead of partitioning with the number in bytes, use percentage. In fdisk, create the primary master active partition as 20% and it will be approx 16 gig, then use % for the logical and extended partitions as well. It will all work in Windows. |
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