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Formatting Harddrive
Name: Joe Leach Date: January 16, 2002 at 11:27:25 Pacific
Comment:
When I format my harddrive in Dos using Format from Win98 it doesn't detect all of the drive. It is a Caviar 3.2gig harddrive and it doesn't detect 1gig of it. Why? Thanks Joe L.
Name: Jason Date: January 16, 2002 at 12:31:45 Pacific
Reply:
Sounds like it may be partitioned as FAT16 which only supports up to 2GB. Boot with your Win98 startup disk, run FDISK, choose large disk support, delete the primary partition and recreate it using the maxiumum available space. Now reboot your computer and format, and it should now be using all 3.2 GB of space. FAT32 is also more efficient so you'll have less wasted space.
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