I recently installed win98se on my hard drive (i have 2 one is 8 gb and the other is 40gb) I tried the larger drive but my computer recognized it as a 2gb drive. I used my smaller one and it did the same. Can anyone tell me why this is, and how can I fix it? I really want to use the larger drive if possible. Thanks Don

check the partition information about the computer..... check the driver overlay in your computer... i am sending the drive overlay document and you can follow that on the your system...and see the is your system has a drive overlay http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;Q186057& and follow fdisk and startup disk step

When you say the computer recognized the hard drives as 2 gig, do you mean that's what the bios said when posting or was that the amount of space on the hard drive according to fdisk or 'properties' in 'my computer'? Most likely it's the latter, which means you've partitioned the drives as fat16 which has a 2 gig max instead of fat32. You have to use fdisk from win95b (I believe) or higher to use fat32. Then when running it say Y to large disk support. Start the computer with a boot disk, run fdisk, Y to large disk support, 3 to delete the 2 gig partition. Follow instructions to delete the partition, esc and reboot again with the boot disk. Run fdisk again, Y to large disk support, 1 to create partition, Y to using the entire space. When it's done, esc, reboot with the bootdisk and "format c:" at the prompt. When it's done reinstall windows normally.

DAVEINCAPS is correct

Had a similar problem on my old P2-233. Found out that bios's dated proir to 94 or something don't support drives larger than 2 gig. check with the manufacturer of your motherboard for a bios update and follow there instructions to the letter...be very careful updating the bios..

Mayank and Philbert are incorrect. BIOS's never had a 2 gig limit. really old 486 had a 512 meg limit and the next limit on older Pentiums was an 8 gig limit. DAVEINCAPS has the correct answer, you have partitioned your drive as FAT16. You need to partition as FAT32.