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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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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