Re: FAT32 XP format loss of space


<darkenedflame@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So my father's friend intelligently reformatted a 250GB hard drive on
XP using FAT32. Im already aware of the 32GB limit employed by XP's
built in software (they really should let you know about that before
you do it). The problem is - when I reformatted back to NTFS it
retained the same 32GB limit.

So my question is - how do I recover the lost 210GB of space on the
drive?


darkened...
Assuming this is a secondary HDD, use Disk Management to delete the present
partition and start over. Apparently when you "reformatted" the drive you
formatted the *same* 32 GB FAT32 partition. The remaining disk space was
"unallocated".

If, on the other hand, you're installing XP on that disk, just delete the
partition through the XP installation CD and (again) start over to create a
single NTFS partition - if that's what you want.

We're assuming in all this that there is no data that has to be retrieved
from the present FAT32 partition.
Anna


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