Issue with upgrage from Win2K Pro to WinXP Pro

[Guest]

Recently I upgraded from Win2K Pro to Win XP Pro. I have a 60 GB disk
partitioned at 20GB (primary - system) and 40GB (secondary - storage). When I
open in Win Explorer the 20GB partition shows as 20GB; the 40GB partition,
however, shows 1MB. And, of course now I can't write to it. In Disk
Management all is OK. Does anyone have an idea about why this upgrade caused
Win Explorer to no longer recogize the disk capacity on the secondary
partition? Thanks in advance for any help.
-Chuck

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Recently I upgraded from Win2K Pro to Win XP Pro. I have a 60 GB disk
partitioned at 20GB (primary - system) and 40GB (secondary - storage). When I
open in Win Explorer the 20GB partition shows as 20GB; the 40GB partition,
however, shows 1MB. And, of course now I can't write to it. In Disk
Management all is OK. Does anyone have an idea about why this upgrade caused
Win Explorer to no longer recogize the disk capacity on the secondary
partition? Thanks in advance for any help.
-Chuck

You need to be a little more specific. When you write "In Disk
Management all is OK" then this may make perfect sense to you
but it means nothing to us. Some statement about the reported
capacity and free space would be far more informative.

 

[Guest]

Oh. Sorry. What I mean by disk managment is:

1. R-Click My computer on desktop
2. Select Manage from menu
3. Then select Disk Management from tree

Once in Disk Management mapped drive letters, capacity, and health all seem
good.

However, I stumbled on the fix. Here's what seems to have happened. On
upgrade, apparently, XP saw the secondary partition as requiring a quota,
which it set at 1MB. (I'm assuming the install procedure/process selected the
quota by default because I didn't manually set it.) Once I disabled disk
quotas, the issue was resolved. One suggestion: Microsoft might want to
rethink this default. I mean who can actually use a 1MB disk quota? Thanks
for your help.
-Chuck

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Thanks for the update - good one!

I was quite aware of how to get into the Disk Manager
but what I sorely missed was some figures from that
area instead of just "it's OK"! When composing a post
you need to convey to the reader what YOU see with
YOUR eyes, because respondents cannot see your
screen with their eyes.