I Need Help Getting My Laptop Hard Drive To See More Than 2G

Hey, everybody!

I picked up an IBM Thinkpad T20 and proceeded to stick my
Windows OS on it. But when done, it said my hard drive was
only 2G. I am quite sure this had 12G before I crashed it
during startup and had to reinstall everything.

I was told there was a problem with partitions, and I would
likely want to invest in a copy of Partition Magic. It
sounds like a powerful program, but before I do, I want to
run this past you experts.

1) Is there a way to get the computer to see more than the
2G without resorting to Partition Magic? There's no data on
it, really. It's just for playing games on the road,
watching movies, or doing some typing. In fact, at the
moment, all it has is my word processing program and two
games, so redoing the hard drive won't eliminate anything.
I don't really need the partitions for things like
diagnostics, since this isn't a work computer.

2) PM sounds like an excellent program. Would you
recommend me getting it whether I need it for this
particular problem or not?

Dobre utka,
Pete Holland Jr.

 

When you did fdisk, did you enable large disk support.
This restricts it to 2gig I think.
Gaz

 

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