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by **Steve Grime** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

Using the Linux fdisk utility, I partitioned my drive to have among other
things a 4GB Primary Dos partition that was FAT32. My machine dual
boots with lilo and when I look under the properties pane for my C: drive
windows only shows a 3.1 GB drive. I also used the chkdsk program, and
it also reports 3.1GB "available disk space".

Where have I gone wrong?

Thanks,
Steve

by **Joe Alle** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

I had a similar problem with NT and Linux.... I later realized that I needed
a drive letter assigned to the partition for NT to be able to see it. Good
Luck

Joe A...

> Using the Linux fdisk utility, I partitioned my drive to have among other
> things a 4GB Primary Dos partition that was FAT32. My machine dual
> boots with lilo and when I look under the properties pane for my C: drive
> windows only shows a 3.1 GB drive. I also used the chkdsk program, and
> it also reports 3.1GB "available disk space".

> Where have I gone wrong?

> Thanks,
> Steve

by **Scott** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

I don't know anything about linnux, but have you duplicated the problem
using MS fdisk? Tried using other SW utils like Partition Magic?
Just my $.02
ScottH

Quote:> Using the Linux fdisk utility, I partitioned my drive to have among other
> things a 4GB Primary Dos partition that was FAT32. My machine dual
> boots with lilo and when I look under the properties pane for my C: drive
> windows only shows a 3.1 GB drive. I also used the chkdsk program, and
> it also reports 3.1GB "available disk space".

> Where have I gone wrong?

> Thanks,
> Steve

by **James Lile** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

On Mon, 27 Sep 1999 20:47:56 -0400, Steve Grimes

:->Using the Linux fdisk utility, I partitioned my drive to have among other
:->things a 4GB Primary Dos partition that was FAT32. My machine dual
:->boots with lilo and when I look under the properties pane for my C: drive
:->windows only shows a 3.1 GB drive. I also used the chkdsk program, and
:->it also reports 3.1GB "available disk space".
:->
:->Where have I gone wrong?

It may be a result of using the Linux FDISK utility.
It can create partitions that DOS does not understand.

Another thought would be that you created a partition for windows and
one or more partitions for Linux.
In that case this may be normal since windows is reporting the size of
the partition and not the drive.
The space reserved for Linux would not be reported that way.
To see the complete drive, run the DOS FDISK and have it display the
partition information for the drive.

I hope that this helps. 8-).

Windows 98 help at
http://www.ac.net/~lilesj

by **Jens Alper** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

Quote:
> It may be a result of using the Linux FDISK utility.
> It can create partitions that DOS does not understand.

That's the best thing you can do: DOS/Windows can't destroy what it
can't handle, except fiddling around in the partition table.

--
Jens

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