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{RESOLVED}Hard drive size.

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  1. cyrilsmith

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    I have swapped my 4gb hdd to a 60gb hdd.I am running windows 98.In start up my bios shows me various things including my hard drive being 60GB but when I am in my computer the size is shown as 25GB. Can anyone help.Please reply in simple jargon as i'm new to this.
     
    cyrilsmith, Dec 16, 2001
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    Hi cyrilsmith, welcome to TSG....

    By chance was your hard drive set up for more than one partition? In my computer, do you see more than just the "C" drive? What's all there?
     
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    What OS are you using and did you FDISK it and set up partitions?
     
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    I only have c drive as my hdd in my computer.No I didn't run F disk when installing or any pertitioning.Should I do this ?Will my files be erased if I do so. I'm on Windows 98.
     
    cyrilsmith, Dec 17, 2001
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    running fdisk from the command prompt will not erase any data, unless you change your partitions. This tool will tell you if there is any of your hard drive that is not partitioned properly.


    http://www.pcabusers.com/fdisk.html is a tutorial on fdisk
     
    RandyG, Dec 17, 2001
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    THANKS.Had to partition and create 4 drives.Loads of space now.
     
    cyrilsmith, Dec 20, 2001
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