1.4 GB????? WTF!?!?!?!?!?

[salman327]

I installed a 40gb maxtor, and it reads it only having 1.47gigs left. I haven't installed jack on here. Was it because in the beginning when I installed win 98, I accidentally hit no for an option that is said to have been workable w/ a larger hd? If this is so, what should I do? Should I reformat? What are some good tools for reformating?

 

[uhohibrokeit]

not exactly sure whats going on there... but id try re-partitioning the drive with Fdisk then formating it with the normal DOS Format command

 

[SaidMohammed]

How old is your BIOS? I suggest upgrading it.

 

[bacillus]

sounds like you didn't say yes to large disk support when using fdisk & so your probably using fat 16 instead of fat32 with it's 2 Gb partition limitation.
you'll better start again by first deleting all partitions with fdisk!

 

[salman327]

It's the shipping bios that came w/ the ECS k7s5a...it's like brand new

 

[culex]

What bacillus said,

Make sure you partitioned with full disk support under FDISK.

 

[Athlon4all]

Yup, the partition is FAT16 which supports 2GB at most, go back into fdisk say yes to enable large disk support, delete the partition and recreate it.

 

[majewski9]

Yeah definately go fat 32.