40G hard drive reported as 2G in Win2K

[Snydley]

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

 

[DL]

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.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;304868
Be aware all data will be lost, you would need to backup data files

 

[Snydley]

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]

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

 

[wooly.bully]

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.