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June 12, 2002 at 10:07 AM
pristle

Where my disk space revisited

by pristle . Updated 24 years ago

I’m starting this again as I was previously “User Deleted”.

where’s the drive space
I feel I should know this, but can’t remember.

I have a Quantum 30Gb HDU which is recognized by the BIOS as such. The unit has a single 30Gb partition, as reported by both Fdisk and PartitionMagic. But the OS sees only 20Gb.

What am I overlooking. The drive has been configured FAT32 on a WinME system.

I have installed the unit into my XP machine for test and analysis. CHKDSK reports only 20Gb as does TreeSize and Windows Explorer.

Please, any clues.

Paul

PS. I have checked this drive in different systems with different OSes with the same result. It appears not to be a BIOS related issue.

The BIOS recognized the Manufacturer/Model ofthe unit. FDISK states it has a 30Gb partition. Strangely EasyRecovery Pro sees it as a 18.6Gb partition of “unknown format”.

For more info check my added comments to my original post.

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