Big (little?) hard drive problem.

Hi. yesturday i upgraded my computer from win 98 to 2000.
in the process i choose to upgrade to ntfs file structure from fat32.

Anyway, after spending considerable time installing all my driver etc (i had formated my hd beforehand using the win 98 boot disk as i had installed win 2k as a clean install previously, giving me 2 boot options, which i didnt want), i was installing ms office when it said i had insufficient disk space?

i have an 80gig hd, so was a bit confused. i went to 'my computer' and discovered the computer thinks i have a 1.99gig hd!! i have checked in the bios and it sees the full 80gigs, but within windows it thinks its onlt 1.99gig.

i am guessing its either something to do with ntfs (i have never previously bothered to change from fat32), some bizzare partitioning thing (i admit i dont fully understand partitioning) or the fact that i used the win98 boot disk to format the drive, but i am really very confused.

if anyone has had this problem or knows how to fix it i would be very gratefull.

 

I almost hate to suggest this since it will take you extra time but I think your best option is to boot from the 2K CD, use it to format the drive, and then install 2K on a completely clean system.

As to NTFS - I seriously doubt it had anything to do with your problem. I've used it for a number of years now from NT3.51 thru XP and much prefer it to FAT but I can't see any way that the choice of file storage would have any effect on the size drive the OS was seeing.