partition

[ramike]

I have a 20 gig wd hdd and am only able to access 2 gig because of the OS Win 98se. Should I use Partition Magic and make the rest of the drive 2 gig logical drives?

TIA
Mike

 

[AndyHui]

Why should Win98SE limit you to 2GB?

The 2GB limitation is only subject to FAT16, which was for DOS and Win95A. All subsequent versions of Windows use FAT32 and allow partitions up to 32GB and up.

 

[ramike]

The OS is only seeing 2 gig but when I go into the BIOS it's reporting 2512 mb. That's why I said 2 gig.

 

[AndyHui]

If the BIOS is only reporting 2.5GB, then there seems to be something else wrong and has nothing to do with Win98. Do you have your hard drive jumpered correctly? Sometimes there is a jumper that caps the size of the hard drive.

Also go into the BIOS and make sure that it detects the parameters of the drive correctly. Make sure that it is in LBA mode and not CHS. You should make sure that your BIOS is the latest version.

Once your BIOS is correctly detecting your drive, you should run FDISK and make sure that large hard disk support is active so that drives can be formatted as FAT32 and not FAT16.