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Partitioning hard drives

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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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gotrootdude

· #2 · Apr 7, 2004

What file system do you wish to format it to? If your useing a old version of fdisk then it may have formatted the drive fat16. Either that or you chose to format it FAT instead of FAT32. I'd find the newest version of fdisk and partition the drive as fat32, or use a win2000 or xp disk and partition/format the drive as NTFS.

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