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
> 
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