I installed Windows2000, an upgrade install from, yikes, MSDOS6.22,to
Windows '95 OSR2, Fat32 file system to Windows 2000 NTFS. When the install
was done I checked in Windows Explorer and it said my C drive was 1.99G,
even though my BIOS reports it at 32G!!! This is on a 400Mhz PII machine.
Not knowing anything about Win2K I tried all kinds of things to get that
30G back, and finally stumbled onto Control Panel > Administrative Tools >
Computer Management > Disk Management, and saw that my hard drive Disk0 had
a 2G drive allocated as "healthy" and 5.86G unallocated space. I tried to
combine this allocated space into 1 disk, was not successful, and decided to
allocate the space into a new disk, disk D:. So now I have to 2 disks, C =
2G, D = 5.86G. I was able to install Windows 2000 SP1, but when I tried to
install SP2 I got a message saying I need 24G on my C: drive in order to
install SP2 and it stopped.
Is there any way to get my full 32g of space back on this system so I can
update my system?

Thanks,
Snyde

Some hd's had a jumper to 'reduce' the size, check carefully the jumper
settings

Personnally I would'nt recommend upgrading from win 95, rather perform a
clean install, using win2k cd to partition/format etc
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;304868
Be aware all data will be lost, you would need to backup data files

"Snydley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news25Me.1155$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I installed Windows2000, an upgrade install from, yikes, MSDOS6.22,to
> Windows '95 OSR2, Fat32 file system to Windows 2000 NTFS. When the install
> was done I checked in Windows Explorer and it said my C drive was 1.99G,
> even though my BIOS reports it at 32G!!! This is on a 400Mhz PII machine.
> Not knowing anything about Win2K I tried all kinds of things to get that
> 30G back, and finally stumbled onto Control Panel > Administrative Tools >
> Computer Management > Disk Management, and saw that my hard drive Disk0
had
> a 2G drive allocated as "healthy" and 5.86G unallocated space. I tried to
> combine this allocated space into 1 disk, was not successful, and decided
to
> allocate the space into a new disk, disk D:. So now I have to 2 disks, C =
> 2G, D = 5.86G. I was able to install Windows 2000 SP1, but when I tried to
> install SP2 I got a message saying I need 24G on my C: drive in order to
> install SP2 and it stopped.
> Is there any way to get my full 32g of space back on this system so I can
> update my system?
>
> Thanks,
> Snyde
>
>

I took your advise and did a clean install of Windows 2000 from boot
disks I made, having it delete the existing partitions before the
install. It worked perfectly. I have 32G of 40G available, (that's all
the BIOS "sees"), on the drive now and that'll work fine until I
eventually buy a new computer. I'm gonna get as much mileage out of this
PII as I can first though!

Thanks for the help!
Snyde

DL wrote:
> Some hd's had a jumper to 'reduce' the size, check carefully the jumper
> settings
>
> Personnally I would'nt recommend upgrading from win 95, rather perform a
> clean install, using win2k cd to partition/format etc
> http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;304868
> Be aware all data will be lost, you would need to backup data files
>
> "Snydley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news25Me.1155$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>I installed Windows2000, an upgrade install from, yikes, MSDOS6.22,to
>>Windows '95 OSR2, Fat32 file system to Windows 2000 NTFS. When the install
>>was done I checked in Windows Explorer and it said my C drive was 1.99G,
>>even though my BIOS reports it at 32G!!! This is on a 400Mhz PII machine.
>> Not knowing anything about Win2K I tried all kinds of things to get that
>>30G back, and finally stumbled onto Control Panel > Administrative Tools >
>>Computer Management > Disk Management, and saw that my hard drive Disk0
>
> had
>
>>a 2G drive allocated as "healthy" and 5.86G unallocated space. I tried to
>>combine this allocated space into 1 disk, was not successful, and decided
>
> to
>
>>allocate the space into a new disk, disk D:. So now I have to 2 disks, C =
>>2G, D = 5.86G. I was able to install Windows 2000 SP1, but when I tried to
>>install SP2 I got a message saying I need 24G on my C: drive in order to
>>install SP2 and it stopped.
>> Is there any way to get my full 32g of space back on this system so I can
>>update my system?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Snyde
>>
>>
>
>
>

The win2k cd is bootable, you may have to alter/amend boot order in bios

"Snydley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:v5kMe.15553$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I took your advise and did a clean install of Windows 2000 from boot
> disks I made, having it delete the existing partitions before the
> install. It worked perfectly. I have 32G of 40G available, (that's all
> the BIOS "sees"), on the drive now and that'll work fine until I
> eventually buy a new computer. I'm gonna get as much mileage out of this
> PII as I can first though!
>
> Thanks for the help!
> Snyde
>
> DL wrote:
> > Some hd's had a jumper to 'reduce' the size, check carefully the jumper
> > settings
> >
> > Personnally I would'nt recommend upgrading from win 95, rather perform a
> > clean install, using win2k cd to partition/format etc
> > http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;304868
> > Be aware all data will be lost, you would need to backup data files
> >
> > "Snydley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> > news25Me.1155$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >
> >>I installed Windows2000, an upgrade install from, yikes, MSDOS6.22,to
> >>Windows '95 OSR2, Fat32 file system to Windows 2000 NTFS. When the
install
> >>was done I checked in Windows Explorer and it said my C drive was 1.99G,
> >>even though my BIOS reports it at 32G!!! This is on a 400Mhz PII
machine.
> >> Not knowing anything about Win2K I tried all kinds of things to get
that
> >>30G back, and finally stumbled onto Control Panel > Administrative Tools
>
> >>Computer Management > Disk Management, and saw that my hard drive Disk0
> >
> > had
> >
> >>a 2G drive allocated as "healthy" and 5.86G unallocated space. I tried
to
> >>combine this allocated space into 1 disk, was not successful, and
decided
> >
> > to
> >
> >>allocate the space into a new disk, disk D:. So now I have to 2 disks, C
=
> >>2G, D = 5.86G. I was able to install Windows 2000 SP1, but when I tried
to
> >>install SP2 I got a message saying I need 24G on my C: drive in order
to
> >>install SP2 and it stopped.
> >> Is there any way to get my full 32g of space back on this system so I
can
> >>update my system?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Snyde
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 18:21:23 GMT, "Snydley"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I installed Windows2000, an upgrade install from, yikes, MSDOS6.22,to
>Windows '95 OSR2, Fat32 file system to Windows 2000 NTFS.

MS-DOS v6.x would format the drive to 2gig max. Deleting the
drive and partitioning under Windows 2000 would get you the
larger drive partitions you would expect.

>When the install
>was done I checked in Windows Explorer and it said my C drive was 1.99G,
>even though my BIOS reports it at 32G!!! This is on a 400Mhz PII machine.
> Not knowing anything about Win2K I tried all kinds of things to get that
>30G back, and finally stumbled onto Control Panel > Administrative Tools >
>Computer Management > Disk Management, and saw that my hard drive Disk0 had
>a 2G drive allocated as "healthy" and 5.86G unallocated space. I tried to
>combine this allocated space into 1 disk, was not successful, and decided to
>allocate the space into a new disk, disk D:. So now I have to 2 disks, C =
>2G, D = 5.86G. I was able to install Windows 2000 SP1, but when I tried to
>install SP2 I got a message saying I need 24G on my C: drive in order to
>install SP2 and it stopped.
> Is there any way to get my full 32g of space back on this system so I can
>update my system?
>
>Thanks,
>Snyde
>