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by: gathel June 22, 2004 8:05 PM PDT

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Hard Drive getting smaller

by gathel - 6/22/04 8:05 PM

I have a Fujitsu MPF320AT 20 G. I reformated and now I only have 11.2 G. I used FDISK first before Format and set up 1 drive. BIO set to auto detect.
PII 300mh S1854 Trinity400 motherboard. Award 4.51 dated March 2000. 128mb memory. What could have happen to the other 8.8 G. of HD?


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Re: Hard Drive getting smaller

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 6/23/04 5:50 PM

In Reply to: Hard Drive getting smaller by gathel

Open a DOS window, type the following for others to see what's up.

FDISK /STATUS

There's a space after FDISK

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Re: Hard Drive getting smaller

by gathel - 6/23/04 9:30 PM

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What should I do to correct this? Thanks for all your help.
Dish 1 19540 Mbytes 100% Usage
Drive C: 11507 Mbytes


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Re: Hard Drive getting smaller

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 6/26/04 9:04 AM

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"What should I do to correct this? Thanks for all your help.
Dish 1 19540 Mbytes 100% Usage
Drive C: 11507 Mbytes"

I hope your typographic errors were only on the words and not numbers, but it appears that you have one partition (C:) of 11,500 MB. There seems to be some other usage of drive 1, but its not showing with FDISK, which I find a little odd. Its possible that someone tried to install another OS and is trying to go back to some other configuration. To fix this, I would have to determine if we need to save any files, then I would start over with FDISK and install the OS again.

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Re: Hard Drive getting smaller

by gathel - 6/29/04 9:13 PM

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I reformated the drive and now have 20 g. Thanks


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Re: Hard Drive getting smaller

by idlefritz - 7/7/04 2:17 PM

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hmm... 1. maybe the disk got partitioned
2. maybe you have an insanely large buffer set by accident

I would try formatting again. Trying to back track is sometimes more painful.


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