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How do I see my WHOLE HDD?
Name: Jim Date: January 13, 2002 at 10:09:22 Pacific
Comment:
I just got a 10GB drive and stuck it in my old machine. When I boot up, I can only see 2GB. I put it in my newer machine, and I can see all 10GB. It seems like my older machine will only let me use 2GB. Is there any way I can get my older machine to use all 10GB?? I think this can be done, I'm just not sure how. For some reason I thought there was a small prog you can run to make this work. Any help would be great!
Name: phred Date: January 13, 2002 at 10:58:59 Pacific
Reply:
hard to be sure, but it's likely that your mobo is one of the older ones that can't "see" HDs bigger than 2 gig. Maybe a bios upgrade would sort it.....
A 2 gig limit is because you formatted your drive with FAT16 instead FAT32.
BIOS's never had a 2 gig limit. It was either a 520 meg limit or an 8 gig limit.
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Response Number 3
Name: luluone Date: January 14, 2002 at 00:29:14 Pacific
Reply:
Use fdisk and create 5 partitions of 2 MB. For Dos & win3.x use only FAT16, FAT32 will not be able to work.
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Response Number 4
Name: big E Date: January 18, 2002 at 09:18:01 Pacific
Reply:
ok win 3.0 ant win nt only see 2gig ok up to win 95c it will only see 5gig 95d 6gig maybe 98 will see 10 gig up date bios it should see 20. then bios on 20 or more gig come on the hard drive win 98 sec ed. update see 20 also. nothing to do with the fat sorry.
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