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Re: Partition Size



Hi Sanjeev,

Sorry for the delay in replying.  The file system is fat32 on c:drive

At 05:59 PM 8/16/00 +0800, you wrote:
>At 02:12 PM 8/16/2000 +0000, Arun Sinha wrote:
>
>>- Created primary partition of 4GB and formatted it (large disk support
>>enabled)
>>- Loaded win98 on this partition.
>
>
>
>>The problem is as under :
>>- In fdisk the primary partition shows 4GB allocated
>>- In Windows Explorer the c: drive shows only 2GB
>>- At the dos prompt, when I see the directory of C:> , the free space shows
>>1.5
>>GB which corresponds to the Windows Explorer display
>
>fdisk talks of partitions, hda1 is 4GB.
>However, I presume that the C: "file system" (vfat?) does not support more 
>than 2GB.
>
>-- Ghane
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