Michelle,

On boot, if your BIOS reports the full drive size, then it is unlikely your
BIOS.  I suspect that your drive was formatted as FAT instead of FAT 32.
FAT only supports drives up to 2 GB, FAT32 supports drives larger than 2 GB.
I also seem to recall a bug in Windows 98 regarding reporting the correct
drive size, but I can't seem to locate the article.

To see if your disk is FAT or FAT32, Double click "My Computer", right click
on your C drive, and then select Properties.  Look for what it says after
"File System:".

Fred Nielson

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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Michele Sayer
Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 10:35 AM
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Subject: [PCBUILD] 10g recognised as 2g in windows


Hi, can anyone help me with yet another problem?
I have a computer which is working fine and running win98, although when I
look into programs/accessories/systemtools/drivespace, it tells me that
there is 2g unused and 0g used on C:
Obviously, this is wrong. I have loaded quite a few programs onto the hard
drive (C), and it was working fine. The last time I loaded a program, the
computer would no longer start up. It got as far as starting windows, then
shut down and restarted, going on to scan because windows hadn't shut down
properly. This happened repeatedly.
I was able to boot into safe mode, and removed the last program I loaded,
and suprise, suprise, it now starts.
I had suspected this was the problem. I am under the impression now that
this is an older bios and won't recognise any hdd over 2g.
It still says 0gig has been used and 2gig is unused.
I installed Norton utilities before I was aware of all of this, and when I
look, that tells me there is nearly 4g drivespace.
It is definately a 10g hdd.
I know there must be a way to force the m/b to recognise the size of the
hdd, but I'm not sure how, and I don't want to guess.
The bios is set to autodetect, which it does.
At the moment, the way it is, I can't load anything else onto the hard
drive, or it fails to start. (I'm guessing that the reason for this is
because it's trying to load programs that are on a part of the drive it
doesn't recognise?)(That, to me, seems the logical explaination for the
problem, but how to solve it?)
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. My brain has gone to sleep.
Michele Sayer

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