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"Ben Myers" <benjmyers@mindR-e-m-o-v-Espring.com> wrote in
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> "ms" <ms@invalid.com> wrote in message
> news:5ul6ohF1ichjlU1@mid.individual.net...
>> I created a new boot disk. It works, I swapped with a known small
>> hard
>
>> drive, got the Compaq setup screen, it had autodetected the smaller
> hard
>> drive.
>> I then used a W98SE boot disk, did fdisk/status.
>> It showed 853 MB, DOS, FAT 16. I deleted, recreated a new logical
>> partition as FAT-32. I then formatted it.
>
> Hopefully, fdisk shows this as "PRI DOS". Logical drives are
> typically found in an extended partition.
>
>> I then ran fdisk/status again, the resulting display is not what I
>> expected.
>> Disk Drive MB Free Usage %
>> 1 812 100
>> C 812
>> 41 MB less?
>> Is this a normal display for a 100% usage/one partition in FAT-32?
>
> The only way to analyze the difference in disk space is to compare the
> details of the two partitions, which can't be done since the original
> one has been deleted. FAT32 partitions have a larger boot sector and
> a much larger file allocation table, but there may be something else
> involved here.
>
>> I considered starting fdisk over, in the first screen see it is now
>> FAT-32, active, so left it.
>> A new question if I may, your opinion on W98SE installed on only 812
> MB,
>> with no Outlook Express, etc, minimal installation?
>
> See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182751
>
> Ben
>
>
Thanks again for the help.
ms
news:#CYjZ04UIHA.5404@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl:
> "ms" <ms@invalid.com> wrote in message
> news:5ul6ohF1ichjlU1@mid.individual.net...
>> I created a new boot disk. It works, I swapped with a known small
>> hard
>
>> drive, got the Compaq setup screen, it had autodetected the smaller
> hard
>> drive.
>> I then used a W98SE boot disk, did fdisk/status.
>> It showed 853 MB, DOS, FAT 16. I deleted, recreated a new logical
>> partition as FAT-32. I then formatted it.
>
> Hopefully, fdisk shows this as "PRI DOS". Logical drives are
> typically found in an extended partition.
>
>> I then ran fdisk/status again, the resulting display is not what I
>> expected.
>> Disk Drive MB Free Usage %
>> 1 812 100
>> C 812
>> 41 MB less?
>> Is this a normal display for a 100% usage/one partition in FAT-32?
>
> The only way to analyze the difference in disk space is to compare the
> details of the two partitions, which can't be done since the original
> one has been deleted. FAT32 partitions have a larger boot sector and
> a much larger file allocation table, but there may be something else
> involved here.
>
>> I considered starting fdisk over, in the first screen see it is now
>> FAT-32, active, so left it.
>> A new question if I may, your opinion on W98SE installed on only 812
> MB,
>> with no Outlook Express, etc, minimal installation?
>
> See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182751
>
> Ben
>
>
Thanks again for the help.
ms