You could also add, if necessary, a third party controller card.
Example, check the following link (found via Google, keywords:
hard disk controller cards PCI):
  http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confControllers-c.html

I have had good and bad experiences with cards from Promise
(http://www.promise.com), the bad experiences were not
necessarily Promise's fault.  I vaguely recall using either the
following card or its predecessor successfully on one
customer's ancient Pentium with Win 98:
http://www.promise.com/marketing/datasheet/file/1_U100TX2_en.pdf

regards,         gerry

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> You've probably run into a BIOS limitation of your motherboard. You may be
> able to find an update at the manufacturer's web site.
> You could also just go with three partitions (8, 8, 4) or check the
> manufacturer's site for "Overlay" software that will allow the full 20 GB
to
> be recognized.
> We could tell you more if we knew the Motherboard name and model and the
HD
> brand.
> *********************
> I just replaced my hard drive and attempted to format it using the Win98
> startup disk. It formated only 8gb of a 20gb hard drive. The computer was
> replaced with the same size HD. Can someone suggest how I can get the
entire
> drive to format.

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