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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