>> Ugly Trick wrote:
>> > I have a two hard drive system. One is a 12.7 Gigabyte capacity, and
>> > the
>> > other one is and 80 gigabyte capacity. When I had Windows 98 SE, the
>> > software
>> > put a dynamic drive overlay in the boot program. I upgraded to XP Home
>> > and
>> > stayed with the FAT 32 file system. Now the computer is reporting the
>> > capacity of the 80 gigabyte hard drive as 31.4 gigabyte. I have tried
>> > every
>> > suggestion that I could find, to no avail. The 80 gigabyte hard drive
>> > is the
>> > slave in the system, because I want to primarily use it for storage.
>> > Help! I
>> > do not want to change the file system and have to reinstall the XP Home
>> > OS.
>> >
>> > Ugly Trick
"Ugly Trick" <UglyTrick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:25DC286D-44E8-42D1-9B33-98055CE59B11@microsoft.com...
>I have not data on the drive. I am trying to get it set up so that I can
>use
> it. I used it when I had the Windows 98 Operating System. There was an
> Overlay on then, and it reported the full 80 Gigabytes.
> "C.Joseph Drayton" wrote:
>> Off the top of my head I would say you formatted the drive
>> as FAT32. WindowsXP natively can only format FAT32 up to
>> 32GB. If you format as NTFS you should get the full size.
>>
>> If you really need to use the drive as FAT32, then there are
>> a couple of Freeware programs that format FAT32 larger than
>> 32GB under WindowsXP.
>>
>> Ciao . . . C.Joseph
UT:
It's hard to imagine why you would be using a 12.7 GB HDD as your XP boot
drive, but we'll let that one go...
Since you've indicated that there's no data on that 80 GB HDD and apparently
want to use it only for storage purposes, why don't you simply use your XP
Disk Management utility (Start > right-click My Computer > Manage > Computer
Management > Disk Management) and delete the partition(s) on that disk, then
create & format whatever partitions you wish and be done with it. It is true
that the formatting process will result in NTFS (and not FAT32) partitions.
If you can't live with that for some reason and need to create one or more
partitions > 32 GB (the max. XP will allow to be formatted FAT32), then
simply use your Win98 Startup floppy disk or whatever DOS floppy disk that
you have and format that 80 GB HDD FAT32.
If you go that route, the only problem you *may* run into is that DDO
program that had been previously installed on that 80 GB HDD. Those overlay
programs can be the source of miserable problems in the future even when the
disk is subsequently partitioned & formatted. Hopefully you won't run into
those problems. If need be you can use a simple program like zap.com (see
http://www.tburke.net/info/utils/) to purge the disk prior to the
partitioning/formatting process.
Anna