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Partitioning hard drives

1023 Views 8 Replies 7 Participants Last post by crjdriver, Apr 12, 2004

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Discussion Starter · Apr 7, 2004

I have an 80gb external harddrive. I used fdisk to format it but there didn't seem to be an option to not partition the drive so I did and now the drive says it is only 1.99gb in size. I'm guessing the rest is the other side of teh partition?? but I don't know how to get to that. Can I just reformat the drive? do I have to make a partition? and if so can I make it as large as I like? that way I can have as much of the drive as possible in one section, if that makes sense

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griffinspc

· #3 · Apr 7, 2004

I used fdisk to format

This just may be a typo but FDISK is where you would have set the "Active" partition. It would have asked if you wanted Large Disk Support and allowed you to set it as one single partition. As dude said, FAT32.

Here is a complete explanation: http://support.microsoft.com/defaul...port/kb/articles/Q255/8/67.ASP&NoWebContent=1

Once you use FDISK then you can "format" the drive.

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