Where in 98SE does it report 6GB? I would think that if the BIOS sees it as 13,
fdisk sees it as 13, there should be no problem. Perhaps the drive has an
overlay, the BIOS and fdisk would see it as 13 but the OS will see something
else.

HTH,

Jose



John Pfankuch wrote:

> My sister's computer has an Abit BH6 motherboard running Award bios version
> 1.0A 1998.  Her 13GB Maxtor harddrive shows up as 13GB on one giant
> partition under Fdisk but in Windows 98SE it only reports 6GB.  Why would
> windows be missing half the harddrive with such a recent version of bios and
> operating system?  I read the recent discussion on the 8GB limitations with
> earlier versions of bios but my sister's bios should be recent enough that
> all 13GB should be there.  I will try updating her bios to the most recent
> version to see what that does but are there any other suggestions?  In other
> words, are there any variables other than the bios version or operating
> system version which can prevent all of a harddrive's capacity from being
> seen?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> John Pfankuch
>
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