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More info?)
Hi there,
and thanks for the hint, R.C.
I am runing Win2K and have all my personal disks formatted in NTFS for
obvious reasons.
My BIOS supports large files, I am running a both 250 GB and 80GB Hard Disks
without problems.
I am formatting this hard additional 200GB hard disk for a friend who is
running Win98 and OS/2 and does not want to upgrade to Win2K or XP.
Therefore it needs to be formatted in FAT32.
Formatting is also no problem, I created a string of 32GB partitions in
FAT32 FS. Right now, there are five partitions with FAT32 on the disk,
(4x32GB and 1x3GB) = 131GB.
My problem is somewhat more bizzarre. For some reason, neither the Disk
Management Utility nor Partition Magic seem to be able to recognise all of
the hard drive (Both utilities only show 130GB out of 200GB). The "Lost
Space" does not show up as unformatted or available space using either of
the tools. The disk is just shown as a 130GB disk, with 70BG seemingly lost!
This has me confused, because my system SHOULD BE ABLE TO SEE AND READ ALL
THE sectors on that disk.
Is there a way that I can force a format for the entire disk. Or are there
any other tools to "reclaim" the disk space that I cannot see?
Thanks, and have weekend,
Tilman
P.S. Will follow up your leads in Google Groups and the leads from the
earlier string now.
"R. C. White" <RCWhite@msn.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, Tilman.
>
> First, does your computer BIOS support "big drives", those over about 137
> GB, which require 48-bit addressing? Google for "big drives" for details
> about this limitation.
>
> If it does, then see responses to your other post about formatting FAT32
on
> volumes larger than 32 GB for use in Win2K or WinXP.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@corridor.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
>
> "Tilman J Schultz" <tilman_schultz@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e5%23m1BbOEHA.3596@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> >
> > I have just reformatted several partitions on a 200GB Drive. The
> > Partitions
> > were formatted with FAT32, and I am running WIN2K on my computer.
> > For some reason, the drive now only shows up as 131GB rather than
200GB -
> > is
> > there a tool that can show me what happened to the rest of the space?
And
> > how can I "reclaim" the lost space?
> > Partition Magic does not see the "lost space" either.
> >
> > Have a nice weekend,
> >
> > Tilman
>