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Fri, 1 Aug 2003 01:47:54 -0700
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Re: Formatting HD
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On 31 Jul 2003, at 23:24, Bob Zuccarello wrote:

> Why does it say that I have a 2gb hard drive when I formatted  a 10gb
> drive

  You don't say what tool, on what OS, you used to format it.

  However, 2MB is the maximum size of a FAT16 partition on Windows 95/98/ME.
 So I'd guess that you really wanted FAT32, but didn't manage to tell the
formatting tool that (or were using a really old tool that didn't support
FAT32...).

David Gillett

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