Disk Management for Windows 98

[computer_kid1]

I have a computer which is still running on windows 98. It has a 20gb hard-drive but only 19gb partitioned. The user wants the last gig for My Documents. Is there a free version of Disk Management for windows 98??

If not do you know of a free application that i can partition this last sector with??

[ukulele]

You can't. The drive manufacture was lying. What you see is what you get. So sue 'em.

[Bigjakkstaffa]

A free application, no.

But Partition Magic will be able to do it for you, if you shop around a bit you should eb able to find it for a few quid.

--Jakk:t

[ukulele]

You can download BootitNG for free to do that, but as I said already, what you see is all you get. It has to do with the way the manufacturers calculate free space. A megabyte is actually bigger then 1,000 bytes and they are going by actual bytes. When was the last time you actually read a truthful ad?

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Ah, i see (re-read).

Yup, manufacturers always round up their figures for hard drive capacity, you will never get 20Gb out of the drive. Basically for ease of use HDD advertising assumes that a Gb is 1000 Megabytes, when in fact it is 1024 MB. As such, what a manufacturer labels a 20Gb drive is nearer 19Gb.

--Jakk:t

[computer_kid1]

sorry you have both missunderstood(i think)

the hard drive does have at least 500mb spare becuase when i created the primary partition i took it down about 500mb from the maximum size that it told me. i know that a hard-drive isnt as big as they say. but i also know that there is extra space on it.

hopefully that is clear!!

if you just trust me that there is space , is there a way in win98 (for free) that i can create a partition (FAT32) and give it a drive letter.

[Sun]

Regarding the actual size its like

20,000,000,000/(1024x1024x1024)=18.6
you have to use something like PM or some other tool like ukulele suggested.

Ranish is also there.

or take backup of all your data on CDR's and then repartition.

get PM if you can, its worth it.

[ukulele]

If you left room on the drive you can just use fdisk from a win98 setup disk or disk management in XP to create a new partition using the left over free space.

[computer_kid1]

thank you. we finally got there.

there is space.
should i make the partition a primary or extened???

[ukulele]

It has to be extended. You can only make one primary partition.