Post by Animal56 on Sept 8, 2004 12:36:59 GMT -5
Hi everyone,
I'm new to this group, so I thought I should introduce myself.
My name is Rob, and I'm from Ontario, Canada. I've been using computers since the old C64. I don't have a lot of skills when it comes to much, but I'm the resident expert among my friends (mostly computer illiterates), and I spend most of my visiting time solving their computer problems. (I haven't solved too many though! LOL)
Anyway, I gave my older computer to my parents-in-law (Patriot Intel P3 400Mhz, 128MB Ram, 16MB 3D Blaster Banshee), and I tried to install a secondary harddrive(1.2GB). I gave up on the 2nd HDD when I realized it was too much work in the System set-up mode.
From there, I decided to reformat the original HDD (12.4GB), so that they would start with a "fresh" boot. I've done this numerous times in the past to "spring clean" by system, and have never had any major issues. After hours of reinstalling drivers, pulling out hairs, and gaining pounds of bum fat, I finally had the system all set up, things running primo, and I went back home.
Next day, they asked me to help them install software for their digital camera so that they can drop pictures on the HDD. Well, as I started up, the program informed me that their was insufficient HDD space...?!?!
I took a quick boo, and Win98 told me that I only had a 1.5GB HDD!!! I freaked! Did I reinstall the wrong HDD? Nope. Did I partition it wrong? Nope. Did I wire it wrong? Nope. That left one explanation...Win98 was confused...maybe?
After a bit of research, some people on the Win98 Discussion board mentioned something about mistakenly partitioning as a FAT16. I thought that was a possibility, but most of the people they were responding to had a 1.99GB/2.00GB error. Mine is 1.50GB.
I went and did what they recommended, and did an FDISK check. Here are the results:
Current Fixed Disk Drive: 1
Partition C:1
Status A
Type PRI DOS
Volume Label HD2
Mbytes 12410
Sys FAT32
Usage 100%
Total disk space is 12410 Mbytes (1 Mbytes = 1048576 bytes)
Everything seems kosher here. Why is Win98 only reading 1.5GB? What do I do to fix it? Please help me out!!!!
Thanks,
Animal56
I'm new to this group, so I thought I should introduce myself.
My name is Rob, and I'm from Ontario, Canada. I've been using computers since the old C64. I don't have a lot of skills when it comes to much, but I'm the resident expert among my friends (mostly computer illiterates), and I spend most of my visiting time solving their computer problems. (I haven't solved too many though! LOL)
Anyway, I gave my older computer to my parents-in-law (Patriot Intel P3 400Mhz, 128MB Ram, 16MB 3D Blaster Banshee), and I tried to install a secondary harddrive(1.2GB). I gave up on the 2nd HDD when I realized it was too much work in the System set-up mode.
From there, I decided to reformat the original HDD (12.4GB), so that they would start with a "fresh" boot. I've done this numerous times in the past to "spring clean" by system, and have never had any major issues. After hours of reinstalling drivers, pulling out hairs, and gaining pounds of bum fat, I finally had the system all set up, things running primo, and I went back home.
Next day, they asked me to help them install software for their digital camera so that they can drop pictures on the HDD. Well, as I started up, the program informed me that their was insufficient HDD space...?!?!
I took a quick boo, and Win98 told me that I only had a 1.5GB HDD!!! I freaked! Did I reinstall the wrong HDD? Nope. Did I partition it wrong? Nope. Did I wire it wrong? Nope. That left one explanation...Win98 was confused...maybe?
After a bit of research, some people on the Win98 Discussion board mentioned something about mistakenly partitioning as a FAT16. I thought that was a possibility, but most of the people they were responding to had a 1.99GB/2.00GB error. Mine is 1.50GB.
I went and did what they recommended, and did an FDISK check. Here are the results:
Current Fixed Disk Drive: 1
Partition C:1
Status A
Type PRI DOS
Volume Label HD2
Mbytes 12410
Sys FAT32
Usage 100%
Total disk space is 12410 Mbytes (1 Mbytes = 1048576 bytes)
Everything seems kosher here. Why is Win98 only reading 1.5GB? What do I do to fix it? Please help me out!!!!
Thanks,
Animal56
