HD Space Missing

[sycotoad]

Sorry to trouble you all with this little problem.
Ilent a 3.4gig Hard Drive to my Bro so he could backup sum S#$t
but when I got it back it is only recognizing it as a little over 2 gigs.

I have tryed using Maxblast to format (it recognises it as @ gig)
I have tryed fdisk and formatting the Drive
Still 2 gig

What, should I do now..........your advice will b appreciated

Hey, and not too much sh%t either Im here to learn:rolleyes:

[GooGlo]

Sounds like its been formatted as fat16, limiting the partition size to just over 2gb. Get a newer boot disk from bootdisk.com and make sure to enable largehard drive support when you start fdisk. Repartition and then get back to us.

[sycotoad]

Originally posted by GooGlo
Sounds like its been formatted as fat16, limiting the partition size to just over 2gb. Get a newer boot disk from bootdisk.com and make sure to enable largehard drive support when you start fdisk. Repartition and then get back to us.

Doing that now Googlo ... keep u posted
THANKS

[swiftynz]

another thing to try is the jumpers on the hard drive itself. i'm looking at a 3,249mb Seagate Medalist now and it has a jumper on it for "Limit drive capacity to 2.1Gbytes (4,092 cylinders)" - direct quote.
just a thought :)

[Binky Stunt Cat]

and of course there is the whole What is a Gigabyte problem.
Manufacturers say its 1 million bytes, but Programmers say its 1024x1024x1024 bytes, or 1073741824 b. So there is ~6.5% loss going from Stated to Actual storage capacity...

[Joshsti_NZ]

$10 (*) says if you run Scandisk this will fix the prob.

My HD once did that, it said it had used 9G on C: which was 12G .. and I only had a new install on Windows, ran Scandisk and it fixed it back to the norm.




* Denotes that I will not pay ;)

[sycotoad]

Now beginning to get pissed off.........

Followed your instructions Googlo and did finally end up with
a partition C and D. I did install win 98 on my C drive,
used partition magic and found the missing space marked as
*: Then created a partition, rebooted and ended up with the C & D drive space. If I delete the D drive it goes back into the space marked *: and I cannot delete or remove that.

Have now fdisk and enabled large disk support, but it still comes up with approx 2 gig.

To the other Q's The jumpers have been checked and are spot on and this HD used to read as a 3.4 gig (approx) b4 it went away, and yes it is the same HD.

Also I do believe that is, could have, maybe have something to do with the FAT16 as I think the dude was playin around with win 95.

And thanks...............so far

[GooGlo]

Try using partition magic bootdisks ( i hope you have them )

Create a fat32 partition. MAKE SURE ITS FAT32, NOT FAT, NOT FAT16.

Fdisk seems to have buggered itself as it randomly does.

If even then (which i doubt) try running scandisk or chkdisk or even the norton equivilent.