Sounds like you created a FAT 16 partition instead of FAT 32.  If you are
using a Win 98 startup disk to create partitions, it should ask you whether
you want to use large disk support, which is what you want to be able to
create a partition larger than 2 GB.  If you used a Win 95 startup disk, you
likely don't get this option, which might be why you ended up with FAT 16.

Use your Win98 startup disk, run fdisk, remove all the current partitions,
then use fdisk to create a new partition with the large drive support (FAT
32), and then run format.  This procedure will not preserve any data on your
disk, so only do this if you have nothing to lose on it.

John

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregg Dieringer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 2:56 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Reduced Hard Drive


> I have a gateway performance 500 running windows 98. I recently had to
reformat my hard drive and afterwards it shows 2GB instead of 13.6GB. What
needs to be done to get full use of my hard drive?

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