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Expand beyond 2gb on FAT to FAT32 converted hdd, windows 98se

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First post, by BurntOutElectronics

Posted on 2023-04-03, 10:00

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G’day everyone,

Wasn’t sure on the best are for this so I’m just putting it under windows, but long story short I’ve got a 10gb hdd in a windows 98se computer.
It has the OS installed onto it, and this was done with fat16 so its capacity is formatted to only 2gb of the drive.
I’ve gone ahead and converted it to fat32, I’m waiting for the defragmentation to finish as we speak, and wondering how I gain access to the rest of the drive without damaging any data?

Thanks

Reply 1 of 2, by Disruptor

Posted on 2023-04-03, 10:08

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You can either add another partition with FDISK or use a tool that can resize partitions like Partition Magic.

Reply 2 of 2, by BurntOutElectronics

Posted on 2023-04-03, 10:33

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Disruptor wrote on 2023-04-03, 10:08:

You can either add another partition with FDISK or use a tool that can resize partitions like Partition Magic.

Thank you, I installed PartitionMagic 4.0 and resized the drive.

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