Change in HDD size reporting

[Rob]

Replaced a crashed drive with a new one same size (40GB)
and installed the OS, drivers, and software with no
problems. Disk size was reported correctly and Scandisk
and Defrag ran without a problem. I tried to install a
new program today and I get a "not enough disk space"
error. When I go to check my disk space it shows only 136
MB available and a total disk space of 1.99 GB and 1.86 GB
used. What happened and how can I fix it without having
to reformat and installing everything again??

[philo]

"Rob" > wrote in message
...
> Replaced a crashed drive with a new one same size (40GB)
> and installed the OS, drivers, and software with no
> problems. Disk size was reported correctly and Scandisk
> and Defrag ran without a problem. I tried to install a
> new program today and I get a "not enough disk space"
> error. When I go to check my disk space it shows only 136
> MB available and a total disk space of 1.99 GB and 1.86 GB
> used. What happened and how can I fix it without having
> to reformat and installing everything again??
>

you probably did not notice at the time
but you evidently failed to enable large drive support...so originally
just created a fat16 2 gig drive

you have three choices:


1) delelte everything using fdisk
then recreate. jusr be sure to enable large drive support


2) run fdisk and create add'l partitons (logical)

3) use a 3rd party utility such as partition magic
to convert and resize

[Ron Badour]

Agree with Philo except for the PMagic recommendation--it costs too much.

BootIt Next Generation is available from: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/
and it does partitioning, makes a compressed image, does many other
partitioning chores and is a boot manager. It is not quite as easy to use
as Partition Magic but it is half the cost and has more features. Unlike
the crippled PMagic demo, BING is a *full function* demo you can try for
free for 30 days. The web site has a lot of support articles.

--
Regards

Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo

"Rob" > wrote in message
...
> Replaced a crashed drive with a new one same size (40GB)
> and installed the OS, drivers, and software with no
> problems. Disk size was reported correctly and Scandisk
> and Defrag ran without a problem. I tried to install a
> new program today and I get a "not enough disk space"
> error. When I go to check my disk space it shows only 136
> MB available and a total disk space of 1.99 GB and 1.86 GB
> used. What happened and how can I fix it without having
> to reformat and installing everything again??
>

Thanks for the help Philo but the drive properties shows
up as a FAT32 c/w large disk support. That's what's so
puzzling. I have an older version of Partition Magic and
will give that a try.

Thanks Ron, for your suggestion on BootIt Next
Generation. Sounds like an interesting piece of software
and will go have a look.
Rob
>-----Original Message-----
>
>"Rob" > wrote in
message
...
>> Replaced a crashed drive with a new one same size (40GB)
>> and installed the OS, drivers, and software with no
>> problems. Disk size was reported correctly and Scandisk
>> and Defrag ran without a problem. I tried to install a
>> new program today and I get a "not enough disk space"
>> error. When I go to check my disk space it shows only
136
>> MB available and a total disk space of 1.99 GB and 1.86
GB
>> used. What happened and how can I fix it without having
>> to reformat and installing everything again??
>>
>
>you probably did not notice at the time
>but you evidently failed to enable large drive
support...so originally
>just created a fat16 2 gig drive
>
>you have three choices:
>
>
>1) delelte everything using fdisk
>then recreate. jusr be sure to enable large drive support
>
>
>2) run fdisk and create add'l partitons (logical)
>
>3) use a 3rd party utility such as partition magic
>to convert and resize
>
>
>.
>