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**luigiman83** · 10-05-2007, 01:13 PM

I recently formatted my 30 gig hard drive through DOS 6.22 and now it has 2 gigs for maximum capacity. And after changing it back to NTFS and re-enabling compression it's still at 2 gigs. Are there any hard drive formatting tools that partitions it to 30GB?

**El Xando** · 10-05-2007, 01:23 PM

Try going Start > Right click "My Computer" > Manage.
Then go to the tab "Disk Management" and try formatting your drive through that.

**Chrono6456** · 10-05-2007, 01:30 PM

are you sure there arent messed up hidden partitions on the drive?

**luigiman83** · 10-05-2007, 01:35 PM

Well since inserting the DOS install disk and removing it is the only way to a command promp, It's set to A:. Can I change it to C: when this disk is done formatting (btw thanks)? It will not go to other drives, and what can I run off the floppy to set it to C:?

**FreePlay** · 10-05-2007, 03:00 PM

IIRC DOS 6.22 can only read up to the first 2GB on your disk. It probably resized the partition in the partition table.

**luigiman83** · 10-05-2007, 03:40 PM

I made a new partition, HD works, now I need to switch from A:\ to C:\ so I can run win 2000 setup on it. Typing in "c:" does not work either, it reads from a:.

10-05-2007, 01:13 PM	#1
luigiman83 Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 383 Trader Feedback: 0	Hard disk capacity help I recently formatted my 30 gig hard drive through DOS 6.22 and now it has 2 gigs for maximum capacity. And after changing it back to NTFS and re-enabling compression it's still at 2 gigs. Are there any hard drive formatting tools that partitions it to 30GB?

10-05-2007, 01:23 PM	#2
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10-05-2007, 01:35 PM	#4
luigiman83 Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 383 Trader Feedback: 0	Well since inserting the DOS install disk and removing it is the only way to a command promp, It's set to A:. Can I change it to C: when this disk is done formatting (btw thanks)? It will not go to other drives, and what can I run off the floppy to set it to C:? Last edited by luigiman83; 10-05-2007 at 02:25 PM.. Reason: Automerged Doublepost

10-05-2007, 03:00 PM	#5
FreePlay Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: h0000000rj Posts: 12,858 Trader Feedback: 0	IIRC DOS 6.22 can only read up to the first 2GB on your disk. It probably resized the partition in the partition table. __________________ [qj now fails.]

10-05-2007, 03:40 PM	#6
luigiman83 Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 383 Trader Feedback: 0	I made a new partition, HD works, now I need to switch from A:\ to C:\ so I can run win 2000 setup on it. Typing in "c:" does not work either, it reads from a:.

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