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Missing space in Drive C:
My C drive has the capacity of 4.3 GB.
Currently when I checked the properties of the drive, I found out that the capacity is even less than a half of the original. Only 1.99GB left there. And I ran out of space already.
Someone help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Currently when I checked the properties of the drive, I found out that the capacity is even less than a half of the original. Only 1.99GB left there. And I ran out of space already.
Someone help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sorgie
You didn't list your type of computer or operating system but you bios and or operating system,especially if you are still using an early version of win95, will not reconized your whole hard drive.
Sorgie is right. Win95 allows partition size only up to ~2Gb. You have to create another logical partition. Boot into DOS (press F8 at startup and choose "Command Prompt only"), then run fdisk. If you will need a help with fdisk, ask here.
For better interface and features you can use
Partition Magic (commercial, http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/) or
Partition Manager (freeware, http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/)
If it helps, I may post the answer.
For better interface and features you can use
Partition Magic (commercial, http://www.powerquest.com/partitionmagic/) or
Partition Manager (freeware, http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/)
If it helps, I may post the answer.
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I am using Windows 98.
After once I deleted all files in c: drive and reinstalled them. I ran Drive Converter under Windows 98. But my computer froze and I pressed the reset button. The process was not over yet.
Maybe that would be the reason.
After once I deleted all files in c: drive and reinstalled them. I ran Drive Converter under Windows 98. But my computer froze and I pressed the reset button. The process was not over yet.
Maybe that would be the reason.
Run fdisk /status from DOS prompt and post the results here.
ASKER
I need help on running Fdisk.
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yuk99
I believe what you think is right. Because I found out that actually I only used 50% of the total space when chose the 4th choice to show the information.
But I still need you to tell me how to run fdisk.
Thanks.
I believe what you think is right. Because I found out that actually I only used 50% of the total space when chose the 4th choice to show the information.
But I still need you to tell me how to run fdisk.
Thanks.
If you use Windows 98, you can use FAT32 type partition. FAT32 does not have 2G limit.
- You can convert to FAT32 and resize your partition to whole drive using Partition Magic (see above).
- Second option is to remove the current partition (BACKUP first), and create new one using fdisk.
If you want to reconstruct whole drive, don't forget to make and test bootable system diskette with fdisk.exe on it.
- Third is to add new partition - FAT32 or FAT16.
A lot of information on using FDISK you can find here:
http://compguystechweb.com/troubleshooting/fdisk/index.html
I recommend you to read it before you will do any changes on your system.
Good luck!
- You can convert to FAT32 and resize your partition to whole drive using Partition Magic (see above).
- Second option is to remove the current partition (BACKUP first), and create new one using fdisk.
If you want to reconstruct whole drive, don't forget to make and test bootable system diskette with fdisk.exe on it.
- Third is to add new partition - FAT32 or FAT16.
A lot of information on using FDISK you can find here:
http://compguystechweb.com/troubleshooting/fdisk/index.html
I recommend you to read it before you will do any changes on your system.
Good luck!
You can use fdisk (a newer one) to create a FAT32 drive. Answer yes to question asking if you would like to enable support for large disk drives (=FAT32). Now you need to create a new partition (must remove old first). After this, reboot your system and format the drive. There is a boot disk shipped with Win95 OSR2 that includes the newer format and fdisk. This one will help you do this. But an easier option is to use Partition Magic.
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