if you have a windows 98 computer handy, put the hard disk in that as
drive,,
then start windows and go to start/accessories/system tools/drive converter
then select d drive,,,follow the prompt, and it will convert the drive to
fat32...
if fat16 was the problem, that will fix it.
regards
Frank
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matthew Pirritano
Sent: Tuesday, 15 May 2001 12:47 AM
To: Kheb; Goh Huade; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Detect only 2GB from 20GB
I've had the same problem. It was because my hard drive was formatted with
FAT16. 2GB is as big as FAT16 can go. You need to use something like
fdisk (comes with Windows) to repartition the drive, making the primary dos
partition as big as it can be. This should turn out to be the true size of
your drive. Then after you reformat it, it should be formatted with FAT32.
Hope that helps.
Matt
--On Sunday, May 13, 2001, 12:52 AM +0000 Kheb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 12 May 2001 06:04:53 -0700 (PDT), Goh Huade said:
>
>> Hi,
>> I just buy a new IBM 20GB hard drive, while installing
>> mandrake 7.2 it only uses 2GB. It is unable to view
>> the rest 18GB, Any idea?
>
> Check the pines back of your hard disk, you have that change it, for
> works correctly
>
>
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