Help me get my harddisk space back!! :)

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

Todd - 04 Oct 2003 16:12 GMT

Here's what running fdisk has informed me off.

Partition Status Type File Syst usage
C: 1 A PriDos FAT16 7%
2 Ext Dos 50%

Partition 2 is just a nothing logical drive with no space
or nothing, it's just there in name only.

Hope this helps you to help me, i'd love to have my
harddisk space back on the one C: so i can get back on
with things ! :)

Sincerely

Todd Chaplin

Thanks Ron, i've posted this again.

>-----Original Message-----
>"Todd" <tchaplin81@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>I recent formated my pc and have finally successfully
>>reinstalled everything.
>>
>>However it says my hard drive (c:) has a capacity of
>>1.99GB, when previously it was about 20GB.
>>
>>On formating i ran fdisk.
>>
>>Does anyone know what has happened here? Has my hard

drive

>>been partioned into 10 different drives that i cannot
>>find?
>
>Open a DOS Window and enter the following command:
>
>FDISK /STATUS
>
>make note of what it reports.
>
>Open My Computer, right-click on the icon for drive C:

and select

>Properties. Does it say "Local Disk FAT" or "Local Disk

FAT32"?

>Post the answer and the information from FDISK /STATUS

back here.

>That will tell us what is going on and then we can look

at options for

>fixing it.
>
>Good luck
>
>Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada

don't eat much."

Reply to this Message

Jeff Richards - 05 Oct 2003 22:22 GMT

Please keep your posts in one thread so people can see what's happening.

Use FDISK to create one or more logical drives in the extended partition.
They will be labelled D, E, etc.

Or start over with a fresh install by deleting all partitions and
re-creating them at the size you want and re-installing Windows and your
applications and data.

Or get a third party partitioning tool like BootitNG, Partition Magic or
Partition Resizer and adjust the size of the existing partitions until you
get the arrangement you want. Note that although these utilities can change
the size of existing partitions, a full system backup is strongly
recommended before starting work.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP W95/W98

> Here's what running fdisk has informed me off.
>
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> harddisk space back on the one C: so i can get back on
> with things ! :)

Reply to this Message