On 21 Mar 2002, at 6:42, Nellie Gomez wrote:

> My hard drive is 20G, yet I only have accesses to 2G.  How do I
> restore the whole hard drive to it's original size?

  2GB is the maximum size of a single *partition* using the FAT16
disk format.  You have three basic choices:

1.  Create an "extended " partition containing nine more 2GB FAT16
partitions:  D:, E:, F:, G:, H:, I:, J:, K:, and L:.  (Whoever
installed your OS may have already done this for you.)  You probably
don't want to have to try and remember which files are on which
partition.

2.  Create an 18GB partition (D:) using one of the formats that can
handle larger partitions, FAT32 or NTFS (which to choose depends
largely on what OS you're running).  (Whoever installed your OS may
have already done THIS for you.)  Does "My Computer" show a D: drive?
How big is it?

3.  Convert your C: partition to FAT32 or NTFS, and Extend it to
20GB.  No version of Windows that I've worked with comes with a tool
that can do this (XP might...), so you'd probably need to buy a
program that can do this.  The one I use and recommend is called
"Partition Magic" and is made by a company called PowerQuest; I
believe it retails for about $75-100.

David Gillett

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