*nick struggles to remember* It was a virgin ex-lease machine, no wait it might have had a vfat partition with the barest dos system ie command.com and not much else.
I installed w98 first and _probably_ asked it's fdisk to only take half the disk, but I am very unsure: Nick (thinking to buy a series of notebooks to keep with each computer in next month's stationery order) On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:58:24 +1200 InfoHelp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you partition the drive before or after the Win98 install? > > i.e. this could be a resizing issue that we all need to learn from. > > Nick Rout wrote: > > >On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:29:49 +1200 > >Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 15:24, Nick Rout wrote: > >> > >> > >>>yes its certainly a good ideas to back up the partition table, but I > >>>don't think there was anything wrong withthe table. The problem seems to > >>>be win 98 thinking its file system is 10G, whereas the its partition is > >>>5G, therefore over wrote the subsequent partitions. > >>> > >>> > >>That's obviously the case, but have you any idea as to how or why? > >>all i can say is that windows did it.... > >> > >>if it was a machine i used on a a daily basis i would probably look from > >>time to time at the disk used space and say "hold on why does it say > >>there is 10G total when i partitioned 5" . The simple fact is i don't > >>know how long it has been like that, whether it was like that when i set > >>it up, or whether something changed. It could have been like that > >>forever, but only became a problem when the OS wanted to use space past > >>the 5G mark. > >> > Rik > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
