Hi Dave,

Are you saying that it lists two partitions on the one drive, one FAT
and one NTFS? That would indeed be very odd. The 111Gb under NTFS I can
believe. My 120Gb Maxtor drive comes up as 114Gb once formatted under
NTFS (formatting takes up to 10% of the drive for it own internal
filesystem information).

I don't understand where the FAT partition comes from, do you have a
second disk? The real odd thing is that I don't believe that FAT32 can
go beyond 60Gb or so.

Russ Poffenberger

> -----Original Message-----
>
> I have a home computer with XP Home SP2 and I have a
> question.  I upgraded the hard drive from a 30GB to a 120GB
> hard drive but I think I messed up the partioning when I did
> it.  The reason I think this is that in the disk management
> section of the computer management program, my hard drive is
> listed as 111.67 GB with 79 free in NTFS and there is a
> listing for 125 GB with 120 free in FAT.  Is this normal or
> is something wrong?  When I did the original format I
> accepted all the defaults.  I think one was to keep the same
> proportions of the old drive and extrapolate them up to the
> new one.  Do I need to fix this and if so, how do I do it?

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