Windows 2000 think my 30 Gb disk is 2 Gb. 1

[sailerboy82]

I just installed windows 2000 professionl on my computer. Before that I usen win 98 and then my 30Gb IBM disk worked without problem. But the disk manager in windows 2000 now says it is only a 2 Gb not formated partition. I've booted from a win 98 bootdisk and there I can still find the 30 Gb partition. Has anyone seen this problem before?

 

[wolluf]

How did you set up the partition when you installed 2k? It sounds like you've created a fat (fat16 not fat32) partition, whose max size is 2GB.

Does disk management (run diskmgmt.msc) show a large c. 28GB unpartitioned space?

 

[sailerboy82]

I forgot to say that it isn't my primary disk, the one I installed 2k on, that is giving me trouble. During the installation the diskmanager there said that the disksize was 2 Gb but it had a 30 Gb partition on it. The disk manager (diskmgmt.msc) in 2k says that it is a 2 Gb disk with a 2 Gb health partition with unknown filesystem. I made the 30 Gb partition with fdisk in win98 when I had that installed.

 

[bigdog92]

like he said about this sounds like a fat16 filesystem partion.

 

[cdogg]

Did you verify the 30GB partition was intact under Win98 when you set it up in the first place? If this is the first time you are trying to access it, then I have to agree with the above - the file system is probably FAT16 instead of FAT32.

It just seems like coincidence that your drive is showing as 2GB, which is the same limitation of FAT16.




~cdogg

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
- A. Einstein

 

[sailerboy82]

Are there differnt kinds om fat32? According to fdisk from win98 it is a fat32. And even if win2k think the partition is 2 Gb shouldn't it know the disk is 30 Gb. Like I said earlier, during the installation of 2k found a partition on the "2 Gb" disk that was 30 Gb so it think it sounds like 2k can't read the correct physical size.

 

[cdogg]

Regardless of what happened, the best route to take at this point is to re-format the drive, use FDISK to delete the partition so that you have 30GB of unpartitioned space, then run Win2K's setup which will partition the disk for you. That way you can be sure it will use FAT32 or NTFS.

In other words, there's no point in using FDISK to re-create the partition.

~cdogg

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
- A. Einstein

 

[sailerboy82]

Okey, I'll try that. Thanks for the help everyone!