Hard Disk running a 1/3 capacity

[BBString]

Hey!

I've installed a 8.4 GB HDD on a 266 mhz machine, its BIOS safely indentifies it at full capacity but Windows 98 thinks its a 2.1GB HDD!

Mad! Any ideas?

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[poertner_1274]

Has it been formated and all space allocated properly?

 

[Nic]

Either,

you have a very old PC that doesn't support hard drives above 2.1GB, even though the bios will show the real size.

or,

You only have a 2.1GB partition on your drive, and need to create a larger partition to see the additional capacity.

If you posted more info, such as your mainboard make/model, then we wouldn't need to guess. You need to format with FAT32 or NTFS to get larger partition size. Standard FAT (i.e. FAT16) only supports up to 2.1GB.

 

[LNCPapa]

Win98=FAT32 if you want all your space

 

[BBString]

Yeah it was formatted with FAT16, gonna format it in 98 and reinstall... cheers me dears!

 

[BBString]

Checked the file system with FDISK and its was FAT16 as suspected, created a new partition using FDISK with the FAT32 file system as supported by that version (WIN98SE BOOT DISK).

Merci....

 

[poertner_1274]

So it sounds like you got everything squared away ok? If so I'm glad to hear it.