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Andy's lost - 31 Oct 2003 04:22 GMT

I formatted my computor and fdisk now it says i only have
2gb, i should have 20gb. what to do HELP. Thanks

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Jeff Richards - 31 Oct 2003 09:05 GMT

This cannot happen just by formatting the disk, but it can happen if you
deleted your partitions and re-created them. This may have been done as a
manual procedure, or as a result of using a recovery CD.

You need to delete the existing partitions and create a new partition using
FDISK. When you do, be sure to answer Y to the question about large hard
disk support - this is what enables you to create a partition larger than
2Gb.

If this is not practicable there are third-party utilities that can adjust
the size of the existing partition.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP W95/W98

> I formatted my computor and fdisk now it says i only have
> 2gb, i should have 20gb. what to do HELP. Thanks

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Andy - 05 Nov 2003 05:26 GMT

I did the command fdisk/status in my command prompt, it
said I had 19077MB which Im pretty sure is 20 GB. If this
is true, why does it say I have 2 GB when I check it iin
my computer?

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>This cannot happen just by formatting the disk, but it can happen if you
>deleted your partitions and re-created them. This may have been done as a
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Tim Slattery - 05 Nov 2003 13:58 GMT

>I did the command fdisk/status in my command prompt, it
>said I had 19077MB which Im pretty sure is 20 GB. If this
>is true, why does it say I have 2 GB when I check it iin
>my computer?

Probably because you have only a single 2GB partition on that 20GB
disk.

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Jeff Richards - 05 Nov 2003 19:51 GMT

Post the whole of the FDISK /Status report here and someone can interpret it
for you.
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Jeff Richards
MS MVP W95/W98

> I did the command fdisk/status in my command prompt, it
> said I had 19077MB which Im pretty sure is 20 GB. If this
> is true, why does it say I have 2 GB when I check it iin
> my computer?

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philo - 06 Nov 2003 17:40 GMT

> I did the command fdisk/status in my command prompt, it
> said I had 19077MB which Im pretty sure is 20 GB. If this
> is true, why does it say I have 2 GB when I check it iin
> my computer?

first off, harddrive partitions and memory are two totally sepearte issues

at any rate, when you ran fdisk to partition you drive
you neglected to enable large disk support

if there is no data on the drive you need to keep
just run fdisk and delete everything

then recreate....being sure to enable large drive support

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