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I recently fdisk and reformatted the hard drive on an older Latitude CP. The drive was a 4.3 GB and now it is only 2.0 GB. What happened?

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I recently fdisk and reformatted the hard drive on an older Latitude CP. The drive was a 4.3 GB and now it is only 2.0 GB. What happened?

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When using FDISK, you probably answered the question about large disk support and FAT32 with N, and if you did that, DOS will make a partition at 2GB and format it FAT16. If you had put in the partitions and logical drives yourself beforehand at 2gb and the rest of the drive, you would have had 2 drives of approximately 2GB each to be formatted FAT16. 2GB is the biggest drive/partition possible with FAT16. If you look at the drive in FDISK OPTIONS, select #4 and see if it shows FAT16 on the line for the drive. If it does, that’s what you did. If it shows FAT32, then you have a “hangover” from a previous installation but you will need to wipe the drive back to a bare state and start over in either case.