Dzingai-

At a guess, I'd say you probably formatted the drives using FAT16 which has
a 2.1 gig limit. That's roughly 65% of 3.2, which more or less matches the
numbers you've given. If you reformat using FAT32, you'll likely have the
use of the entire drive.

Rick


At 06:46 PM 9/29/2000 -1000, Dzingai wrote:
>Hie all
>
>(EDIT)
>The two PCs were giving me problems so I decided to format them. I suspected
>that their boot sectors might have been infected by a virus, therefore I
>deleted the active partitions. (I have done this on numerous other PCs).
>However on these two occassions, after the FDISK, checked the Partition
>Details, the computer indicated that only 62% of the HDD was available. I
>did not see what the remainder 38% was used for.
>
>However, when I (right-click) the HDD icon in Windows (Win95a)/Properties it
>shows the actual size of the HDD (3.2Gig).Is this normal? Did I do something
>wrong?
>
>
>Dzingai
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