SOS! The hard disk lost 5 GB! - China DOS Union Forum - China DOS Union

Experts, I'm just a newbie. A few days ago I used the C: drive with Win98 installed to create an MS-DOS boot disk, then I formatted the D drive with Win2000 installed using Win98's MS-DOS. After setting it to boot from floppy, I entered COMMAND, then on drive D I entered FORMAT C：, then set it to boot from CD, and reinstalled Win98, but it verified for a long time with no response, so I had no choice but to reinstall Win2000, and unexpectedly it actually worked. Then I changed my mind, rebooted, formatted, and installed Win98 again, but this time it said there were winnt files on the hard disk and that I had to delete them first, but I had already formatted it, so how come... ? I had no choice but to reinstall Win2000 again. After I got it done, I found that my C drive, which was originally 7 GB, now had only 2 GB! The utility software PM found that drive C had an extended partition, exactly 5 GB! But Win2000 is installed on drive C, so it can't be operated on. What should I do? (But at most I can only format drive C!)

Floor1　西郭	Posted 2003-06-04 00:00
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Experts, I'm just a newbie. A few days ago I used the C: drive with Win98 installed to create an MS-DOS boot disk, then I formatted the D drive with Win2000 installed using Win98's MS-DOS. After setting it to boot from floppy, I entered COMMAND, then on drive D I entered FORMAT C：, then set it to boot from CD, and reinstalled Win98, but it verified for a long time with no response, so I had no choice but to reinstall Win2000, and unexpectedly it actually worked. Then I changed my mind, rebooted, formatted, and installed Win98 again, but this time it said there were winnt files on the hard disk and that I had to delete them first, but I had already formatted it, so how come... ? I had no choice but to reinstall Win2000 again. After I got it done, I found that my C drive, which was originally 7 GB, now had only 2 GB! The utility software PM found that drive C had an extended partition, exactly 5 GB! But Win2000 is installed on drive C, so it can't be operated on. What should I do? (But at most I can only format drive C!)

Floor2　如是大师	Posted 2003-06-04 00:00
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Try spfdisk, it solves it very easily..

Floor3　菜鸟one	Posted 2003-06-05 00:00
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I think you used the wrong format. You probably don't know that a FAT primary partition can only use 2 GB. You can change it to FAT16 format and it'll be OK.

Floor4　wins	Posted 2003-06-06 00:00
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Just use pqmagic to change it a bit and it'll be fine 2k can change it too, you're not using NTFS format, are you?

Floor5　wglwx	Posted 2003-06-06 00:00
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The person in post #3 was wrong. It should be: a FAT (FAT16) partition can only be used up to a maximum of 2 GB; you can change it to FAT32 format and it'll be OK.