getting CCM's Disk Management to display disk facts consistently

[Randy V]

Hello -

I recently installed WXP onto a spare system here at work
to use in development.
The system was an old WNT box. It had 2 16Gb drives. The
first drive had 2 logical
volumes on it, C and E. The second disk had 1 volume on
it. At the time I was
installing the O/S, I wasn't sure whether the E volume had
files that we needed.

So, I just installed WXP into the C volume. After I
installed the O/S, I found out
that the files in volume E were really old. So, I deleted
the partition, converted
it to 'free space', then used diskpart and the extend
command to add the free space to
C. Diskpart performed this operation successfully.

That was a few days ago. Since then, I've had reason to
take a look at the Disk
Management window in WXP's CCM. I notice something
peculiar in CCM. The graphical
display for drive C shows the expected 16 Gb amount of
space for drive C.

However the alphabetical view says that Drive C has a
capacity of 4.89 Gb with 1.53
Gb free.

This is really confusing. I'm getting ready to copy our
production website onto this
developer box and I really need to know whether drive C
has 1.5 or 13 Gb free - big
difference.

By the way, from the command prompt, a 'dir' of drive C
says that there is 1.5 Gb free.
Not a good sign.

Has anyone encountered this before? It is as if the
system knows physically the drive
is 16Gb but from an O/S point of view, maybe the
partitions were not successfully merged.

Does anyone know how to get the alphabetical view of the
disk to jibe with the graphical view?

Thanks in advance.

Randy

[Roger Abell [MVP]]

Bizarre. It almost sounds like you are bumping into the old
maximum partitions size (of early NT4). It cannot be the old
BIOS limitations as the OS does seem to have knowledge of
the whole partitions.
If I were you, before going into serious use of the box I would
just do a fresh install letting XP do the formatting. And, BTW
you should keep in mind that extending partitions doubles the
chances of loosing all of the partition content to disk problems.

Roger

--
Roger Abell
MS MVP (Windows, Security)
MCDBA MCSE W2k+NT4
"Randy V" > wrote in message
...
> Hello -
>
> I recently installed WXP onto a spare system here at work
> to use in development.
> The system was an old WNT box. It had 2 16Gb drives. The
> first drive had 2 logical
> volumes on it, C and E. The second disk had 1 volume on
> it. At the time I was
> installing the O/S, I wasn't sure whether the E volume had
> files that we needed.
>
> So, I just installed WXP into the C volume. After I
> installed the O/S, I found out
> that the files in volume E were really old. So, I deleted
> the partition, converted
> it to 'free space', then used diskpart and the extend
> command to add the free space to
> C. Diskpart performed this operation successfully.
>
> That was a few days ago. Since then, I've had reason to
> take a look at the Disk
> Management window in WXP's CCM. I notice something
> peculiar in CCM. The graphical
> display for drive C shows the expected 16 Gb amount of
> space for drive C.
>
> However the alphabetical view says that Drive C has a
> capacity of 4.89 Gb with 1.53
> Gb free.
>
> This is really confusing. I'm getting ready to copy our
> production website onto this
> developer box and I really need to know whether drive C
> has 1.5 or 13 Gb free - big
> difference.
>
> By the way, from the command prompt, a 'dir' of drive C
> says that there is 1.5 Gb free.
> Not a good sign.
>
> Has anyone encountered this before? It is as if the
> system knows physically the drive
> is 16Gb but from an O/S point of view, maybe the
> partitions were not successfully merged.
>
> Does anyone know how to get the alphabetical view of the
> disk to jibe with the graphical view?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Randy