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Old July 22nd 07, 02:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
oldschoolt
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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--
t
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Old July 22nd 07, 04:27 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
Ben Myers
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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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Old July 22nd 07, 10:36 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
AlmostBob
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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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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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