can any body help me ?

[subhu]

Hi friends i have a prob' with my pc. i have p3 pc with 20 GB harddisk i have made it into 3 parts using partion magic ie: 10GB,9GB,1GB but now the prob' is the 1 Gb space is not showing and i have tried to format it but its not formating.can anybody help me?
with regards...
subhu.

[infra_red_dude]

can u elaborate ur problem a bit more? i mean, is the 1 GB partition not showing visible or wot? how can u try to format it when the partition itself is not visible? plz give more details.

[subhu]

the prob' is it can't be seen when ur system is up means it can't be used, but partition magic shows it and while new installation of OS it shows ,but if u try to format it ,it won't. what may the prob'?

[infra_red_dude]

What OS do u use? and what type did u create the partition as (fat, ntfs etc.)??

[Choto Cheeta]

@subhu

1. what is the file system??
2. is the 1GB parttion Primary DOS drive or logical one??
3.which OS u r useing??

now if u have the system page file in that partition system wont b able to format..

4. So where is ur page file?

now the AVS auto protection is enabled then AVS might not allow u to format

5. So have u tried after dibleing the Real-time protection??

6. How r u trying to format?? after booting from HDD or from CD/Floppy boot??

lol.. may b too many question... but u know this r the common foults... do reply...

[subhu]

i use win xp prof' anf th epartition is Fat32.

[subhu]

yah saurav ! i tried several methods but its not working i don't know y? even full system format also leave this 1 GB space .can u find any solution for this ?
thanks

[manavmohanty]

was the 1gb partiton created last???

[subhu]

yah manav the partition 1 GB was created last.

[Keith Sebastian]

Since you have Partition Magic, use the "Merge Partition" option to club 9 and 1 gb together.

Keith

[subhu]

keith... no merge ..no delete... no format ..nothing is happing...it just shows the space in 'PM' and while formatting but u can't do anything,

[Choto Cheeta]

Originally Posted by subhu

even full system format also leave this 1 GB space .can u find any solution for this ?

if u can aford a full system format then just delet all the partition.... creat one learge one... then break it in smaller size... see what happens

too format... follow this guide... do exactly what is says..

How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition or Repartition a Hard Disk

but as u r in windows XP then might take a look at this & do the need full...

Removing a Partition from a Hard Disk Using Microsoft Windows XP Professional

but I suggest go for the 1st option.... do reply...

P.S. Better take a print out of the 1st artical... its a really handy one....

[subhu]

No saurav after full deletion it will show 19Gb + 1Gb saparetly.

[Vishal Gupta]

Try to boot using Windows XP bootable CD and when it asks the location to install windows (i.e. shows the partition table to select partition) , select the 1 GB partition that u want to format and delete it.

It can also be done using Red Hat Linux or FC CDs. It also allows us to remove, format partitions.

[subhu]

hello vishal i'm telling that i can't delete r do nothing while formatting also.

[Vishal Gupta]

Do u hv 20 GB HDD?
No HDD gives u exact space as its size.
If u r getting 19 GB from a 20 GB HDD, then its fine.
U can't do nething...

[subhu]

hello 20GB means 20 Gb there will be no exsemtion okay , no company will do like that, i had worked on that full 20 Gb and know after doing partion i can't.