Hi there. My system shows 9.5 GB of HD instead of 10.5 GB. Why it shows like that? How can I increase my HD to reach to the true limit? I'm using HP 6630, celeran, 500 mhz, 64 ram, win 98 se. Any help will be apprecieted.

Mark, what you want to do is check the capacity in your bios. If you don't know how to access your bios, while the computer is restarting and at the bottom of the screen you see hit "DEL" to enter system bios. Hit del and this will bring you into the bios, there under the first catagory, I think, select it and hit enter, see what the drive is listed as. IF it is wrong then go to auto detect my hard drive section and let the bios detect the harddrive. Hope this helps. Joe

if that doesn't help try partition magic to stretch the partition out to its full size.

Thanks, Jim and Joe. Joe, When I hit del at restarting it shows nothing, windows is opening as usual. I have tried for several times but same result. It's a HP celeran computer, do you think it has different way to enter into BIOS? Jim, if I try for the partion magic is there possibility to damage my existing softwares in the system. If not how can I do it. Thanks.

http://www.pcguide.com/intro/fun/bindec.htm one paragraph from there; Storage devices however are where the real confusion comes in. Some companies and software packages use binary megabytes and gigabytes, and some use decimal megabytes and gigabytes. What's worse is that the percentage discrepancy between the decimal and binary measures increases as the numbers get larger: there is only a 2.4% difference between a decimal and a binary kilobyte, which isn't that big of a deal. However, this increases to around a 5% difference for megabytes, and around 7.5% for gigabytes, which is actually fairly significant. This is why with today's larger hard disks, more people are starting to notice the difference between the two measures. Hard disk capacities are always stated in decimal gigabytes, while most software uses binary. So, someone will buy a "30 GB hard disk", partition and format it, and then be told by Windows that the disk is "27.94 gigabytes" and wonder "where the other 2 gigabytes went". Well, the disk is 27.94 gigabytes--27.94 binary gigabytes. The 2 gigabytes didn't go anywhere. Another thing to be careful of is converting between binary gigabytes and binary

Hi, Mark.Partition Magic works without damaging your files, unlike fdisk. It installs from a CD and runs like any other program in your win98 and you can change and create partitions whenever you want. To get into the bios, some machines use the F2 key, not DEL. And there's others too. Check your owners manual if you have one. Jim.