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How to change compatability mode of hard drive

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Name: D.R. Ford
Date: December 30, 1999 at 21:15:57 Pacific
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I bought a new machine without an OS and figured I could install my copy of Win 95. this machine had a large hard drive and would not work properly in Win 95. The seller had me partition the dirve into 4 drives. Even then the dydtem would not work right and I installed the 98 upgrade. Now I can not get the Win 98 to recognize the 3 other drives. It just see C drive. How can I change the other drives from their Dos mode to where Win 98 will recognize them. It says they are in MS DOS compatability mode. Thanks



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Name: DAMIAN
Date: December 30, 1999 at 22:54:10 Pacific
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U NEED FIRST OF ALL TO MAKE BOOT DISK FROM WIN98.. BOOT FROM THIS TYPE..
FDISK
when ur asked do u want to enable big disk support say yes..this is FAT32 and will support hard drives bigger than 2.1 gigabytes
delete the original partitions
create one new big one or
2 big ones whatever
then FORMAT the drive or drives
load win98 upgrade it will ask you for your original win95 disk GOODLUCK....
SuperTech


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