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

[Robert E. Coutch]

Is LBA enabled for the drive in your BIOS ?

-Bob

On Friday 25 June 2004 10:01 pm, Mark Haney wrote:
> 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
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