An old annoyance is the way Windows98 checks the floppy on a call to
shutdown or reboot.
So prior to the shut\start, there's a 'clunkety-clunk' from the floppy,
repeated 3 times, as Windows re-assures itself about something esoteric.
This isn't a new phenomena, my wife's machine has been doing it for forever
as well.
Anyone know how to prevent this?
The floppy behaves otherwise normally, the BIOS is
Ian Porter
Computer Guys
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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----- Original Message -----
From: "David Gillett" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 8:18 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] How to restore hard drive


> On 21 Mar 2002, at 6:42, Nellie Gomez wrote:
>
> > My hard drive is 20G, yet I only have accesses to 2G.  How do I
> > restore the whole hard drive to it's original size?
>
>   2GB is the maximum size of a single *partition* using the FAT16
> disk format.  You have three basic choices:
>
> 1.  Create an "extended " partition containing nine more 2GB FAT16
> partitions:  D:, E:, F:, G:, H:, I:, J:, K:, and L:.  (Whoever
> installed your OS may have already done this for you.)  You probably
> don't want to have to try and remember which files are on which
> partition.
>
> 2.  Create an 18GB partition (D:) using one of the formats that can
> handle larger partitions, FAT32 or NTFS (which to choose depends
> largely on what OS you're running).  (Whoever installed your OS may
> have already done THIS for you.)  Does "My Computer" show a D: drive?
> How big is it?
>
> 3.  Convert your C: partition to FAT32 or NTFS, and Extend it to
> 20GB.  No version of Windows that I've worked with comes with a tool
> that can do this (XP might...), so you'd probably need to buy a
> program that can do this.  The one I use and recommend is called
> "Partition Magic" and is made by a company called PowerQuest; I
> believe it retails for about $75-100.
>
> David Gillett
>
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