I have an old P1 266MMX box with unknown mobo. I am willing to spend some time but no money on this as it is more an item of curiosity rather than necessity. I have Win ME installed on C: as my main OS (please don’t laugh too hard). C: is only 1.5 gig. My data & most apps are on D: which is ~3gig. I have a 10 gig E: drive. My bios and/or mobo won’t support more than 8.4 gig.
When I installed the 10 gig drive I partitioned it with fdisk to 8.4 deciding to “waste” the rest. Recently I was playing with Partition Magic and discovered that I could use the “wasted” space. I gained a ~1.6 gig H: drive.
I installed Win XP Pro on H:, giving me a dual boot machine (no SP1 or SP2). This worked great. I then decided to comvert C: from FAT16 to FAT32. This gave me several hundred extra MB, but I could no longer boot to Win ME. I could still access everything from XP. I then converted C: back to FAT16, but still could not boot Win ME. I used my WinME rescue floppy. Now I could boot ME but could not boot or access XP. I used Partition Magic and it saw my XP partition as unallocated (H: was gone) and would not allocate or repartition the space. I figured to start from scratch, so I used Partition Magic to remove the unallocated partion, intending to repartition to where I began. Now that 1.6 gig is nowhere to be seen by any means I have. I can make additional partitions but they come from the 8.4 gig space. This is not what I want. Does anyone know how I can regain this space?
(If not expensive, I would be willing to purchase additional utility software.)
