If you used the old WIN95a boot disk...yes, it does NOT know what FAT32 is,
it lists it as unknown and probably any reporting errors at all will come as
a NT partition NTFS....

David Olds

-----Original Message-----
From: David A. Abbe <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 10:50 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] HDD Size Limit Error Msg?


>Hello People,
>
>So, if I come upon a bios which won't recognize large hard drives, what
>error message will I receive?  any?  I stuck a new 6.1 gig with win98
>pre-loaded into a machine, tried to boot, used the boot disk, went into
>fdisk and under file system, it said Unknown.  The machine is a somewhat
>older Packard Bell with a bios date of 1992.  I would tell you the
>message it gave me when I tried to boot but I forgot at the moment and
>only "tried" it once before coming home.  I do know the machine was
>running win95A on a 1.5 gig maxtor beforehand and ran fine.
>
>But then again, in Cmos, it recognizes the hard drive just fine.  Does it
>just not know what Fat 32 is?
>
>Thanks
>David A. Abbe
>
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