Question about 'Turn Off the Low Disk Space Warning'
Monday, April 7, 2003 at 11:07 pm
Posted by Dennis
(1 messages posted)
I have a question about Turn
Off the Low Disk Space Warning:
I recently upgraded my HDD from 4.3Gb to 20Gb and encountered the same problem. While
my BIOS recognised the new drive as 20Gb, windows still only recognised it as 4.3Gb
in it's FAT32 format. Problem was that when I'd installed and formatted the new HDD
I'd neglected to choose partitions by percentages of the total HDD space. (ie: 20%
of my new HDD in FAT32 would give 4Gb for FAT32 format allowing approx. 16Gb of usable
space). Seems it is the opposite of compression that causes the problem in that it
spreads the original 4.3Gb over a 20Gb space.
The solution was to use a program like "Ghost" by Symantec to copy my entire HDD
contents back to the old 4.3Gb HDD. Connect old 4.3Gb as a slave on the middle connector
of the HDD cable. Fdisk the 20Gb HDD as a 20% (I had around 4Gb to transfer) and
then swapped the HDD's around also changing the 4.3Gb to master & the 20Gb to slave
in order to transfer my entire contents back to the new 20Gb.
Remembering that when you change the HDD's on the cable, go to your BIOS to detect
them in the new configuration. Now I am able to use the 20Gb space with comfort.
Good luck
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