This is entirely dependant upon the operating system you are using. If you are using an early version of Windows 95 you will be limited to approx 2gb partition sizes. If you're using Win 95 Second Edition or later (98, 98SE, ME, XP, 2000 etc) you'll be able to get full use of your drive. The trick will depend on what OS you're using (let us know for detailed directions) but for the most part, you can boot to dos off of a floppy disk (Win 98 for example will let you create a dos only boot disk) with format.com and fdisk.exe on it. Then run fdisk (and say yes to enable large partitions) then you'll be able to crate the full size partition. This WILL OBLITERATE all date on that disk, and you have to be sure not to edit the wrong partition.
There are also retail software utilities out there that can make this a little less daunting. Anyway, give us more details on your computer / OS etc. All that simply said Moreno's single sentence answer. ;) Nathan -----Original Message----- From: John's ntl account [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 10:29 PM To: Nathan S. Harwood Subject: [filmscanners] I hardly dare mention Hard Drives But... some of you demonstrated recently you knew a lot about them, and I have a (scanner related) problem. I bought a Maxtor 4D040H hard drive as a slave to my main hard drive so as to have a giant scratch disk for Photoshop. Trouble is, the wretched thing reports under 2Gig file space while 38 Gb goes unallocated. Now if one of you experts would like to tell me off list what you think I've done wrong I'd be eternally grateful. And my scanning will improve ;-) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
