Hi,

1,9 Gb is the legendary maximum amount of an older FAT type partion. Are you
sure you used the right format?

Greetings,

Jeroen v.d. Westelaken
EXEcute-IT

Internet: http://www.execute-it.nl


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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Seedkum Aladeem
Verzonden: dinsdag 12 februari 2002 8:08
Aan: Newbie at MDK
Onderwerp: [newbie] Disk partitioning problem.


Hi,

Harddrake says that a drive is taking the full space of a partition but
the visible size is about half the size of the partition. The other half
is not visible and I cannot reach it. The following is a description of
what I did and what I observed. Hopefully someone can tell me what is
going on and how to fix it.

I had an NT4 NTFS partition (~1.9 Gig) and a FAT32 partition (~1.9 Gig).
I used Harddrake to delete both of them and create a single FAT32
partition out of them (~3.8 Gig). When I looked at the properties of the
directory mount point using Konqueror (with the new partition mounted) I
saw a size of only ~1.9 Gig! Rebooting did not remove the discrepancy
between Harddrake and Konqueror. Harddrake showed no empty (unused)
partition.

I went and installed win2k on this new FAT32 partition. Win2k did the
same thing. Explorer said the drive was ~1.9 Gig but the Disk Management
tool said it was ~3.8 Gig. The disk management tool showed no empty
(unused) partition, like Harddrake.

I hope somebody can make sense out of this.


Seedkum



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