Hard Drive Problem

[ankur]

i have a 20 gig hard drive, but windows only reports it as a 10gig hard drive - on boot up the bios reports it as its full 20g but only when Windows (98 SE) starts it is incorrect ? any ideas - apart from reformatiing the drive ?

[mattie]

Restart your PC in ms-dos mode. At the command prompt, type fdisk and press enter. If a message appears about large disk support press "Y" and enter if necessary. If you have more than one hard drive select the option to change drive, usually option 5, and then select view partition information, option4. It may be that your drive has been partitioned for some reason and only half the disk is being used, fdisk will confirm this and allow you to create a partition to use the remaining space. Be careful how you use fdisk, as if you accidently delete a partition, then it is gone for good.

[riktooley]

It might be worth trying to upgrade your HDD's file system to FAT32. There is an option to do this in Win98 +. The old FAT system was really bad at recognising large drives.

[gandalf]

get a mac, epecially one of the new iMacs-they rock and don't have problems.