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20gig but its 8gig

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  • 23-08-1999 11:01am
    #1
    Chaos
    Registered Users Posts: 1,134 ✭✭✭


    M8 of mine has a 20gig h/d but its only showing up as a 8gig. Does he need some sort of programme so windblows can read it?

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    Venom
    Registered Users Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    Upgrade to win98 as its a mush better and far more stable OS.I have 2 10 gig hd's in my system and they are both used as 10 gig each with no problems.

    Ven(not running out of space yet)om


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    Venom
    Registered Users Posts: 6,984 ✭✭✭Venom


    Upgrade to win98 as its a mush better and far more stable OS.I have 2 10 gig hd's in my system and they are both used as 10 gig each with no problems.

    Ven(not running out of space yet)om


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    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    WWMan, the 2GIG limit is a catch 22. The drive has to be formatted to FAT32. However in order to do that you have to have Windows95 already installed, which you can't do on a FAT32 drive because you have to have it installed to do it. smile.gif
    yeah, like im gonna ever have a 2 terrabyte hd

    I give you 3 years when Quake 5 comes out. smile.gif


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    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan



    actually, only win95 release 2 uses fat32.
    the first release of win95 used fat 16 smile.gif
    white(being pedantic again)wash

    and ven, do you have partition magic 4?
    coz im getting bored with a single 13gig harddrive sad.gif


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    Helv
    Closed Accounts Posts: 483 ✭✭Helv


    Dats right.

    Has anyone checked that using win95a that the os will actually allow you fill the disk more . ie if you have a 3 gig drive formatted with fat16, win95 wont see the extra gig, but will it let you use it?


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    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    8GIG is the max size Win95 and some NT will only support (on FAT I think?).

    He should partition the disk if he has this.

    If it's a brand new disk, run FDISK from within a Windows Dos bos. This will activate the FDISK32 which should allow you to make a larger disk, then format in windows.



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    Kali
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,601 ✭✭✭Kali


    or grab a copy of Partition Magic smile.gif

    btw.. NTFS will only see up to 8 gigs as well, although this is fixed by recent service packs.
    also NT5 fixes this.


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    WhiteWashMan
    Registered Users Posts: 20,099 ✭✭✭✭WhiteWashMan



    afaik win95 will only read partitions of 2 gig.
    so if you have a drive bigger than that it has to be partitioned or any size drive will just read as 2 gigs. wast if you have a 20 gig hard drive wink.gif

    nt will read up to 4 gig.
    i think win98 is the only one that will let you have a single drive of any size.... upto 2 terrabytes. yeah, like im gonna ever have a 2 terrabyte hd smile.gif


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