many reasons, if the motherboard bios only recognises 20GB, that is all you
get without a software overlay
or the autoselect is disabled and or not working correctly
try manual selection and enter the drive parameters from the manufacturers
data sheet
if Ben Myers' suggestion doesnt fix it
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Adaware
http://www.lavasoft.de
spybot
http://www.safer-networking.org
AVG free antivirus
http://free.grisoft.com/
Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
Super Antispyware
http://www.superantispyware.com/
Panda online AntiVirus scan
http://www.activescan.com
Panda online AntiSpyware Scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/
Catalog of removal tools (1)
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Catalog of removal tools (2)
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387
Trouble Shooting guide to Windows
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before
use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters
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"oldschoolt" wrote in message
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I purchased a wester digital 7k 8m ata100
Why would wind98 only recognize 20 gig out of a 40 gig new drive
It is set up fat 32--
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