so i formatted my hdd and now all of the sudden i have 2 gigs instead of 20, i figure that i didnt partion the whole drive or whatever.. how can i make it 1 big drive?
did you use fdisk to create the partition?
if so, did you reboot after deleting the old partition?
did you reboot after creating the new partition?
did you format it as fat32 (to later format it during xp install as ntfs) before rebooting after creating the partition?
what os did u use??
if xp just go to com management and allocated back ur space...
if u want to combine all to 1 partition only just use partition magic..... it's simple
or use fdisk.... wipe out all..... then repartition
Since the current usable space on the drive is so small, you could copy whatever data is on it to another drive. Then use computer management to delete all partitions and create new one(s) for whatever size you want. Then move the data back.
Or, you could just create a partition in the unallocated space so you'll have one 2GB partition and one 17GB partition.
I think you accidentaly made a FAT16 partition and not a FAT32 one. FAT16 is maximum 2048 MB. If you reinstall XP, don't use fdisk. Just chuck in the XP CD and let it handle it.
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