MxRobbo Posted June 15, 2002 Share Posted June 15, 2002 i have a maxtor 40gb 7200rpm hdd, it was mostly filled with misc stuff, and some movies i had downloaded, one of the movies wouldnt delete after i viewed it and had rebooted a few times, i got tired of it not deleting and tried to format the drive, half way through it gave me an error formatting, then i rebooted and tried reformating it a number of times, finally i went to the component services in xp and went through all the steps to get the hdd working and it finally did, but theres 9 gigs missing seeing it only reads 31.85gb and not 40 (actually around 39.1 if i can remember) but anyways, theres space missing, is there any programs that could recover the missing hard drive space? all the ones that came with xp only see it as 31.85gb, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted June 15, 2002 Share Posted June 15, 2002 get a boot disk and do an fdisk and see if there are any partitions you dont know about or even better, (is using XP) righ click on my computer and go to manage, then go to disk management, it should tell you what is in that space, i think you can even enlarge the partition too (i think) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxRobbo Posted June 15, 2002 Author Share Posted June 15, 2002 yeah in the disk management it still says its 31.49gb and its using the whole partition and theres no extra ones, i'll try the fdisk thing after i install the floppy drive, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevember Posted June 16, 2002 Share Posted June 16, 2002 Isn't there something I read about about 32gig limit, either OS, or bios or something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted June 16, 2002 Share Posted June 16, 2002 Originally posted by Stevie Isn't there something I read about about 32gig limit, either OS, or bios or something? Windows 2000 and XP Cannot Create FAT32 Paritions 32GB+ you must use NTFS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasanth Posted June 16, 2002 Share Posted June 16, 2002 Originally posted by xStainDx you must use NTFS. or just create two fat32 partitions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted June 16, 2002 Share Posted June 16, 2002 Originally posted by prasanth or just create two fat32 partitions. eh, I suggest using NTFS, its better than FAT32, in Large Drives. in many ways than just 1. I've totaly boycotted FAT32 on any of my drives doesn't matter what size they are big or small. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasanth Posted June 16, 2002 Share Posted June 16, 2002 Originally posted by xStainDx its better than FAT32 agreed :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevember Posted June 16, 2002 Share Posted June 16, 2002 But there is other factors, 1. does he need access in dos? 2. Is he dual booting with an OS that can't read ntfs? and many more... So as so many always says NTFS is best it may not be best for everyone.:p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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