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Dissappearing Hard Drive Space

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by alfredthe4th

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I was installing NT Server on a machine and during format process it crashed. When I restarted the computer 18GB of a 20GB HD was gone. How can I get this HD Drive back to the original amount of space.

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by madroxxx

Create a windows 98 bootdisk and copy the command fdisk and format to it.
Boot to the floppy and run FDISK.
Delete the partition
Create a new partition
Reboot to floppy again
format the drive
a:\format c:

by alfredthe4th

I have tried this with no success everytime I create a new partition it is only 2GB. I am switching from was switching from FAT32 to NTFS filing system, if that helps.

by tech75147

If you fdisk & format the hard drive and have extended Dos partitions installed, the extended partitions will still be using the space for applications and file storage.
Had a simular problem to this when dual booting 98&W2K on a single hard drive, even though it is possible to partition sets. Was running 98 in a 800Kb partition and W2K in a 18Gig partition, but the main 800Kb partition was inoperatable and locked out the second partition.
Also, it is not possible to run a fat bit systemwith NTFS on a single HD, so there is something else to consider when you set up the hard drive file system.

by alfredthe4th

I tried to use Partition Magic and it only sees the 2GB that Fdisk and NT partitioner sees. But thanks for the suggestion.

by edeker

I have a similar problem where half the drive capacity has dissappeared. I think it is in the drives partitiion table as the bios shows the full capacity but only half available. Since, this is a new area for me I am still investigating a fix.

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