External HDD - drive size incorrect

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I have a 200GB external (USB2.0) disk drive. (It's an IDE drive mounted
in an external caddy). My computer->manage->disk management tells me
the drive is ~190GB (correct) and mounted on drive E:. However, the
capacity of drive E is shown as 83.99 GB, and windows is telling me i'm
out of space. Why is this? how can I correct it?

Thankyou. I hope I posted in the correct newsgroup - I am new to them!
 
Jonny said:
How did the partition "E" get there? Who made the partition?
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I made it, formatted the drive to NTFS and mounted to E:.

Using 'ntfsresize -i /dev/sda1' under linux, apparently the volume
capacity is 83.99GB, and the device capacity is 197GB. Why the
difference? There are no other partitions on the drive and it appears
to only have 5MB unpartitioned space (according to my computer ->
manage drives)

Any help is much appreciated! At the moment my best bet is to install
the ext2 driver for windows and reformat to ext2...
 
I made it, formatted the drive to NTFS and mounted to E:.

Using 'ntfsresize -i /dev/sda1' under linux, apparently the volume
capacity is 83.99GB, and the device capacity is 197GB. Why the
difference? There are no other partitions on the drive and it appears
to only have 5MB unpartitioned space (according to my computer ->
manage drives)

Any help is much appreciated! At the moment my best bet is to install
the ext2 driver for windows and reformat to ext2...
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Go to a linux/XP hybrid group. This ain't one.
 
It's got nothing to do with linux. I just dual-booted into linux and
used ntfsresize because it gives me accurate, human-readable
information about the partition.

It was partitioned in windows, and linux can hardly access ntfs drives
anyway.

Sorry if I offended you by mentioning linux though ;)
 
It's got nothing to do with linux. I just dual-booted into linux and
used ntfsresize because it gives me accurate, human-readable
information about the partition.

It was partitioned in windows, and linux can hardly access ntfs drives
anyway.

Sorry if I offended you by mentioning linux though ;)
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No offense taken. I don't know, if any, of use of that has any affect upon
windows explorer or diskmangler in XP.
 
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