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Large disk support is enabled.
Option 4 in Fdisk gives you the status of the drive, and it says total disk space is 10781 Meg or 10.781 gig. The Pri partition is 10 GIG, ahd the logical drives in the extended partition add up to 67.xx gig...for a total of 76.4 gig which is the correct nominal size of a WD 80 gig.
The number 10.871 gig does not bother me, but I was going to partition a third 80 drive on Xmas day and I put the pri part as 10 gig, and when I set up the Extended part it showed that I only had about 781 Meg left. I tried to set a logical drive of 15 gig, but it would not let me. It said max size is 781 Meg.
I have used WinME boot disk many times and it always worked well, but mow it gives about the same results... only a few megs different.
just yesterday I formatted the Pri partition and restored a ghost image I had made 19 Dec 2003.....no change. It also showed no damaged sectors ....no problems. And I ran fdisk /mbr, which also made no difference.
I wonder if it might be WinXP drivers that have changed somehow. Or some WinXP update could have installed a driver that conflicts.
I will restore the ghost image onto another 80 gig and then do some experimenting.
Have you ever reinstalled winXP over an existing Installation??...I did that a few times years ago with Win98, and that worked OK.
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