When you formatted your drive, I suspect you used a dos disk. Either way, it was formatted as fat16 and the maximum partition for fat16 is 2 GB.
I believe fat 32 is over 100 GB.
Unfortunately, you’ll need to delpart.exe your computer and start fresh. Just download delpart.exe off the internet, create a boot startup disk and add delpart.exe to it. It’ll fit on one disk.
Reboot your computer to A drive and after it has finished reading A drive, type in delpart. Before you do this however, back up your important information. Save changed and reboot your computer.
Then, if you want your computer to speed up a little bit, create custom partitions through fdisk after it finished rebooting and reading drive A. Create a primary, enable it to boot, an extended with two logical partitions.
After that is done, then reboot. After A is finished reading and you have enabled CD rom usage with the startup disk, then when the disk is done, change drives to the cd rom drive and type format c:
It will format the drive into fat 32. Why did I say all this, it’s because that you’ll be able to move your swap file to the partition that you choose.
This will cause a separate memory space when windows needs it. When your C drive fills up with programs under one partition, you might get a low memory error. Even if you have tons of RAM in your computer (It doesn’t matter what operating system you’re running when the low memory error happens), windows uses that hard drive space as virtual memory and when your hard drive gets full, your virtual memory goes down.
If you move your swapfile to another formatted partition, then your computer will never have that problem.
Also, the smaller the partition size, the faster the programs run.
I know with my computer, I am running windows 98se and I have three partitions. A swapfile of 3 GB, a program/writer partition of 2.2 GB and a 1.5 GB partition for windows.
My 128 MB 433 Mhz computer, with a few changes to the OS (no programming), my computer is running at a 600 Mhz with no hardware changes.
If you need any further help, please email me back at dbucyk@telus.net