HDD size wrong...

[Grey]

I have the stuff below.But on this latest installation the Comp is reporting a 2 gig HDD for what is a 15 Gig drive. The Bios detects it fine. I cant figure it out someone help!

 

[Robor]

Sounds like it's FAT and not FAT32. FAT limits to 2GB size HD's. Try using fdisk and display the partition information.

Rob

 

[Grey]

DOH, that is exactly what it was! thanks man!! Cripes, now how do I get it back to 15 gigs without killing the stuff on the HDD?

 

[RyanP]

try using win98's fat32 conversion tool (accessories->system tools/)

 

[xtreme2k]

dont think so
it needs to be reformatted as 15G i think

 

[Grey]

Thanks for the quick replies all! Man you would think win98 would format right to FAT32. Just when I get all the stuff installed too hehe..

 

[DaddyG]

If you had the correct version of FDISK, it should have asked about Support for Large Drives (something to that effect).

 

[xtreme2k]

I am guessing and i am not sure

i dont think FAT32converter will convert a 2G Fat16 drive into a 15G Fat32 drive
instead it will be doing a
2G --> 2G conversion

 

[NicColt]

DaddyG is right, I just used Fdisk yesterday and it asked and warned me first if I wanted to use FAT32 if you do then you can format one large partition.

 

[jinsonxu]

Try Partition Magic.

 

[Robor]

Yep, Partition Magic is the answer there. You can expand your current FAT partition and convert it to FAT32.

Rob

 

[Noriaki]

FDISK will ask about large disk support.
Say yes and you are in FAT32 mode
Say no and you are in FAT16 mode

As for taking a 2Gig partition and converting to a 15gig FAT32 partition Partition Magic is the only way to do something like that AFAIK.

With FDISK you will lose the contents.