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Tim - 19 Feb 2004 15:21 GMT

Can win98se recognize a harddrive of 90 gigs? I have
installed one and now it only has 32 gig showing as the
size of the drive.Can I do something short of a operating
system upgrade to regain the other space?

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Ron Badour - 23 Feb 2004 17:30 GMT

It might be the problem that Tim outlined or it is possible that it is a
BIOS problem and not Windows. You can either use the hard drive maker's
drive overlay software or do a BIOS upgrade (not to be taken lightly if
you haven't done one before)

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> Can win98se recognize a harddrive of 90 gigs? I have
> installed one and now it only has 32 gig showing as the
> size of the drive.Can I do something short of a operating
> system upgrade to regain the other space?

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Lil' Dave - 26 Feb 2004 23:05 GMT

32Gb is one of many bios HD capacity limits.
However, windows 98 using either version of fdisk can parition such a HD.
The original limited to a 64GB partition capacity.
Dave

> It might be the problem that Tim outlined or it is possible that it is a
> BIOS problem and not Windows. You can either use the hard drive maker's
[quoted text clipped - 5 lines]
> > size of the drive.Can I do something short of a operating
> > system upgrade to regain the other space?

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Jeff Richards - 27 Feb 2004 00:14 GMT

If this disk is partitioned using an out-of-date version of FDISK then it
will be partitioned with a size equal to the disk capacity less 64 GB. The
original version of FDISK will _not_ partition this disk to 64 GB. Please
see:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];263044
Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Hard Disks Larger than 64 GB

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> 32Gb is one of many bios HD capacity limits.
> However, windows 98 using either version of fdisk can parition such a HD.
> The original limited to a 64GB partition capacity.
> Dave

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