Disk space gone.....

Keith_George · August 18, 2006, 7:22pm

I have a 40Gig drive and using Fdisk it reports 2 gig in the primary & 36 gig in the extended. If I try to create a logical drive in the extended partition the screen shows “No logical drives defined” but, at the bottom of the screen it says that “all available space is used by the logical drive”

I am using this drive as a slave, when I am in Win98, the only part of the disk I can see is the 2 gig partition.

Where is the remaining 38 gig gone, and can I get it back?

TIA
Keith

donkey42 · August 19, 2006, 7:38am

it sound as though your using the original (first release of 98 & fdisk)
do you have any partitioning software ?

update to 98 SE (at least) then fdisk will reconize full HDD

what mobo & BIOS revision ?

Keith_George · August 19, 2006, 1:08pm

Thanks for your response. I am using Win98 SE. I have tried this drive as a slave on 2 pc’s with the same result, I have tried to delete all the partitions but fdisk tells me “can’t delete extended drive with logical drive” but there are no logical drives.

megamaced · August 19, 2006, 2:04pm

What’s the output of the following command:

fdisk /status

Keith_George · August 19, 2006, 5:34pm

The command fdisk /status reads :-

Disk Drv M/bytes Free Usage
1 12624 100%
C: 19540
E: 30004
F: 14002
G: 14614

2 38162 8 100%
D: 2047
36107

It’s disk 2 that I am having problems with.

donkey42 · August 20, 2006, 1:14pm

try using some third party patitioning software e.g. partition magic is what a lot of people use, my partitioning software choice is Acronis Partition Expert 2003, which has now been superseeded by Acronis Disk Director Suite 10.0 but there are loads of different partitioning software available, just google it
:offtopic: [ot]sorry mega LOL[/ot]

megamaced · August 20, 2006, 2:00pm

[ot]
[QUOTE=donkey42]
sorry mega LOL
[/QUOTE]

Huh? What are you saying sorry for?[/ot]

Keith_George · August 20, 2006, 8:08pm

Hi Guys,

Thank you for all your help, I have now used this disk on my XP machine and XP found the “whole” drive.

As Arnie says “I’ll be back” (with something else)

donkey42 · August 21, 2006, 3:52pm

surggesting someone “google” it, when you work for Yahoo[ot] it was supose to be funny, but you ruined it[/ot]

megamaced · August 21, 2006, 5:26pm

[ot] I don’t work for Yahoo anymore [/ot]

donkey42 · August 21, 2006, 5:34pm

why ?
did they upset you ?
whose problems are you sorting now (except for annoying people like me) ?

[ot]you dont have to answer the questions, just ignore me (in this post)[/ot]

megamaced · August 21, 2006, 10:07pm

[ot]

Yeah, I decided to give in and admit that Google is better

No, basically I needed part time work because of my course work, so I had to look elsewhere.[/ot]