Just a double-check - you computer-savvy people!

[ellenmillion]

I used the default 'maximum partition' when I went through that song and dance, and apparently, it chose a single partition (only one additional drive shows up in my tree). I was warned, in geek-speak that I barely understood, that I was going to have to partition this in halves because I have Win 98 SE??? Is this true? Do I need to re-partition?? I'd like to know now before I start storing stuff on this drive. Any advice is welcome!

~Ellen

Edit: helps if I mention that its an 80 gig drive, probably...

Comments

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

I'm seeing 76.3 Gig capacity through explorer, and I test-saved some files onto it and it *seems* to be working just fine. Thank you soooooo much for bending brain power to this!! The computer company sounded hassled when I last called for advice. :P

[renatus.livejournal.com]

Then everything got partitioned and formatted correctly :) For some reason drives are advertised as if 1 GB = 1000 MB, when in reality 1 GB = 1024 MB, so the actual count of GB is lower. Same amount of room in the end, though. You shouldn't have anything to worry about.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Yay! Yay!! Yay!!! Thank you! I feel much more at ease now. :)

[jemstone.livejournal.com]

This is one of the things I hated about Windows, and love about *nix OS's and Mac OS (Classic and new), and that is the ability or inability to see an entire drive. Windows = Jump through hoops. Non-Windows = Oh, look, a drive. I think I'll format the whole thing, okay? Zip! Done!

I am very glad you got it done painlessly. I have very bad memories of setting up user computers at the ISP I worked at. Bad ones. With the words "FAT32" written on them. Gah.

-JEM