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new hard drive
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-- t |
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"oldschoolt" wrote in message ...
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-- t Try partitioning and formatting with Western Digital's installation utility. http://support.wdc.com/download/inde...n&pid=999&swid Ben |
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new hard drive
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 -- -- -- -- -- -- 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 _ "oldschoolt" wrote in message ... 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-- t |
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