re: Question about 'Explorer is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)'
Saturday, April 9, 2005 at 2:54 pm
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by mrgcav
(1 messages posted)
Hello, did you ever solve the problem ?
I am having trouble getting XP and ME to dual boot. I have XP on a 10 G hard drive
and ME on a 8 Gb hard drive. Two seperate physical drives.
Any ideas on how I can get them to dual boot ?
Mrgcav@hotmail.com
On Friday, September 19, 2003 at 10:11 am, tatag wrote:
>I have a question about Explorer
>is reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug):
>
>I have a dual boot system (Millenium on a 40 GB FAT32 partition + XP on a 40 GB
NTFS
>partition). I use 2 maxtor ATA133 D740X 40 GB disks mounted in RAID 0 on a HPT372
>controller. As disks were full, I decide to upgrade to a RAID 0+1 stucture with
4
>maxtor 160 GB disks. With new version of drive image 7, I made an image of the FAT32
>partition, and an image of the NTFS partition on a temporary IDE disk. Then I install
>the 4 new disks, create my RAID 0+1 structure, and made a restore with powerquest
>PQRE software. Everything works fine, except that it forces me to have a 137 GB
FAT32
>parition and balance (320-137) on NTFS. I suppose it is due to the 137 GB limitation,
>even if my motherboard accepts such big hard drives, more than 137 GB.
>Finally, after migration, dual boot is working fine, XP is working fine with a
lot
>of free space, but Millenium has a problem. Explorer says that I have a 40 GB disk
>with some 100 MB free space!!! I should have about 90 GB free.
>I run scandisk in Millenium 12 hours along with no network connection, but it does
>not solve the problem. I think scandisk does not perform its job, it always restart
>saying someone has written to the disk forcing to restart its process.
>In XP disk management, I see my 2 partitions with the real right size, I also see
>it in Millenium. So, I think disk partitionning is well done.
>Any idea to solve the problem?
>
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