[wplug] windows drive properties don't match partition table

[Mark Haney]

Hello,

I've got a strange situation on my laptop that I can't figure out...

It came with Windows ME. I decided to dual-boot with Linux, so I used
GNU Parted to shrink the Windows partition, then I installed Debian on
the free space. No problem there. 

After a few weeks I decided to try to shrink and move the Linux
partition, and  grow the Windows partition, since I had lots of free
space on the Linux partition and the Windows one was almost full. I used
qtparted on SystemRescueCD to shrink the Linux partition, and move it
farther back on the drive. That worked fine. Then I tried to grow the
Windows (Fat32 LBA) to fill the empty space that had been left between
the two partitions. QT Parted said it was 100% done moving files, but
then it seemed to get stuck. I tried Parted from the command line, and
it did the same thing. I finally deleted the Windows partition (after
backing up the partition table with sfdisk) and re-created it to fill
all the available space.

All this seems to have worked. I can boot into either Linux or Windows.
In Windows, fdisk shows the new partition table. In Linux, cfdisk shows
the new partition table. However, when I go to the C: drive on "My
Computer" on Windows and select "properties" it still shows the old,
smaller disk size. So, the partition table says I have around 6 GB for
that partition, but the C: drive thinks it is 4 MB.

Does anyone know why it might be doing this or how I might fix it? I
guess Windows ME doesn't get its drive information from the partition table.

Thanks,
Mark