Hi, I checked it right now with the win2k Disk Management tool and it says FAT32. I know that Harddrake also says FAT32.
Thanks, Seedkum "Jeroen v.d. Westelaken" wrote: > > 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 > > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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