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anuj
June 12th 04, 11:31 AM
my computer show rough capacity of my drive c: (first
drive)11.1gb instead of 19.6gb

CJT
June 12th 04, 05:18 PM
anuj wrote:

> my computer show rough capacity of my drive c: (first
> drive)11.1gb instead of 19.6gb

bummer.

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Ron Martell
June 12th 04, 08:31 PM
"anuj" > wrote:

>my computer show rough capacity of my drive c: (first
>drive)11.1gb instead of 19.6gb

Open an MS-DOS Prompt window and enter the following command:

FDISK /STATUS

Post the results back here. That will tell us what is going on with
your hard drive.

There are at least a couple of possibilities:
1. The BIOS setup parameters used for the drive are incorrect,
resulting in the full capacity not being recognized.
2. The full capacity of the drive was not allocated to drive C: and
there is unused space available on the drive which can be used to
create another partition or (with appropriate third party software) to
increase the size of drive C:

Good luck


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