i just finally got an external case for my WD 120 gb hd, 7200 rpm. I put in an Ultra mini HD case. The school computer technichian formatted it to fat32, but as everyone knows, you cannot get any more than 32 GB of HD space if you format to fat32. When i finally got the HD back, i tried formatting it to NTFS, but it won't give me any more space. (in fact, i can only get 28 GB's of storage.) I then tried formatting the HD through cmd.com, but of course it formats to fat32, and once again only gives me 28 GB of hd space. I read that to get beyond this limit, I would need a format utility to do this. After 2-3 hours of searching, i'm shocked at the lack of disk formatters. Does anyone have any advice?
i have no idea what you are talking about. i'm running windows 2k btw.
Well, i've had limited success. I have no idea what the hell the computer technichian did, but this hd has 4 different partitions on it! 2 are 28 GB, one is 57 GB, and one is less than 1 GB. I guess i'll have to go into FDisk and delete some of the partitions, and see what i can do from there. It all adds to about 115 GBs altogether, give or take a few, which is much better. Yet, I have no idea what to do with all these drives though... (the drives go all the way up to h
I'll probably use FDisk to remove the partitions, and re-partition it to 2 drives, each about 60 GB.
Well, what I meant was get a windows XP boot disk, and use the format utilities on it to delete the partitions, create a new primary parition using the full space available, and the format it. I say use XP because it would use NTFS
Same thing with windows 2k: all the partitions are ntfs. Kinda wish i could boot with usb devices: I'd create partitions with linux and windows 98, and one with a tiny version of linux, just for fast booting and stuff like that. *sigh* oh well... better keep dreaming... damn bios...
Strange. I have got a 30Gb HDD for Win95 in my Pentium 233MHz, and i can reach all of it, not "just" 28Gb... I wonder how the limit turned out to be only 28Gb.
No, it turned out that all the laptop could see was one of the partitions. the hd was partitioned 4 ways. After I reformatted the rest of the partitions and assigned them a letter, it worked fine.
Quote:Strange. I have got a 30Gb HDD for Win95 in my Pentium 233MHz, and i can reach all of it, not "just" 28Gb... I wonder how the limit turned out to be only 28Gb.
30 gigs for win95!!!!? I only have one. :o How Do i raise mine that high?
Quote:No, it turned out that all the laptop could see was one of the partitions. the hd was partitioned 4 ways. After I reformatted the rest of the partitions and assigned them a letter, it worked fine.
Your tech prolly installed Linux or some *nix variant =P and then formatted all partitions with Fat32 without deleting them...
Anyway, why dont you just delete all the partitions and make new ones that suit your need?
mooch, you can "raise" the space by deleting your old parititons and creating new ones using fdisk. You will lose all data if you delete the partitions. There are utilities which claim to "resize" your partitions but I dont trust them :lol:. I trust only qparted ( which comes with knoppix ). It resized my NTFS partition correctly without any apparent side effects.
oh yeah! He DID try to put linux on a partition... but failed.
All partitions have been deleted, and 3 new ones have been made, but i'm wondering if it was the right choice.
I made 2 55 GB partitions, and 1 2 GB partition.
the 2 55 GB partitions, i have no idea what i'm going to use them for. probably i will unload some of the files on the C:\ and the E:\ drive to free some space on those drives, considering they only have 4 GB and 5 GB of space respectively.
The 2 GB partition, on the other hand, i'm using for virtual memory. i read *somewhere* around here that it's good to have lots of virtual memory, but before i couldn't quite afford it, considering i didn't have 2 GB of free HD space to my name.
I was considering putting Linux on one partition, but i probably will not now... considering my laptop cannot boot from a usb device, even when i updated the bios. Curse you phoenix!!! though, now that I have the new HD, i could probably copy most of the files from the E:\ to the new HD and put linux onto THAT... yes, that could work... *rubs hands in glee*