Partition Anomaly

[WuzzBot]

I have a PCChips M599lmr motherboard, about 350Mhz and for the first
year used NT 4.0. I then moved up to W2000. When I created the
partitions for the 8.3G HD originally, I thought I was limited to 2G per
partition. That might have been an NT limit. I also thought 8G was about
the limit of a HD for the machine. Anyway, I recently decided to
challenge that and acquired a WD Caviar 30G drive for the second drive.
It came up fine and after running the WD Datalife install program I
ended up with a 30M partition. I'm happy about that but slightly
surprised. Could this be true? However, I noticed when I ran Computer
Manager and looked at the allocation it showed 30M unused and 60M
used!!! The pie chart looked OK. Any comments on this oddity? I do have
one file at this point on the drive. It's about 200K in size.

 

[sgopus]

if you used NTFS you are allowed a much larger file size.
FAT32 is limited to 20 GIG or close to.
You seem to be mixing your labels, are you saying
I

ended up with a 30M partition" as being accurate?? if so

your missing a larger part of your disk.

I would suggest you break it into smaller partitions.
15G per, and use it strictly for data storage.

I have two hd's primary is two partitions of 20g and
secondary is two partitions of 20G each, w2k can handle
much larger hd's

 

[WuzzBot]

Thanks. Yes, I finally discovered the world of W2000 is different and I
can have very large partitions. I'm using NTFS. The HD is advertised as
being 30G--physical limit. Somehow after rebooting the size anomally
seems to have disappeared. All is well.