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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