Hard drive capacity not recognized

[Mike Miller]

Hello,

On my Compaq laptop with a 40 GB disk, Windows Explorer is
now reporting the disk capacity as 1 GB, and therefore
thinks it is full.

However, Disk Manager still shows the correct capacity.
This happened after I installed a demo copy of Small Biz
server on the system. This was set up in a completely
different directory in a dual-boot mode. If I boot into
Small Biz server, Explorer reports the correct capacity.
File system type is NTFS.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

A different directory or a different partition??????? It sounds to me like
SBS created a partition for itself (as it should rightfully do as you CANNOT
run two operating systems in the same partition).......

If you look in Disk Management (right click on My Computer, click on Manage,
on the following screen, click on Disk Management)... you should now see you
have a hard drive in two partitions.. probably assigned C and D as the drive
letters.

If you do NOT want to destroy all data on the drive, you will have to use a
Third Party software like Partition Magic or BootItNG to merge the two
partitions. If you do not use the third party software, the only way you
can get a single partition back is to delete the exisiting partitions (yes,
both), create one single new one and then reformat and reinstall XP.

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[Mike Miller]

Thanks for the reply. Actually you can run 2 operating
systems on one partition. I have done it many times in the
past. My main home PC actually has 98, 2000 Pro, and win
server 2003 and they all boot from the same partition. In
my case, XP and SBS are in different directories, but the
same partition. Somehow installing SBS has caused XP to
not correctly recognize the partition size, even though it
still sees all of the files and folders that are on it.

Thanks,

Mike

 

[Larry Samuels]

You cannot SAFELY run 2 OS on the same partition, as you have just
discovered.

--
Larry Samuels MS-MVP (Windows-Shell/User)
Associate Expert
Unofficial FAQ for Windows Server 2003 at
http://home.earthlink.net/~larrysamuels/WS2003FAQ.htm
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[project722]

Does anyone else have access to your pc? Because what you are describing
can happen if disk quota's are enbaled and set. Disk manager will show
the correct size, while win explorer will show the allocated size to the
user. Not likely but you might want to check out the quota tab and see
if maybe disk quota have been enabled.