Hard Drive Limitation size

[MortimRex]

My dad just put a new 60GB hard drive in his computer. The bios picks it up fine at the right size, yet windows only show it as a 23GB drive.

To make things worse, scandisk & diskdoctor will not run.

Any ideas? The motherboard is a new ASUS A7A266 and the HDD is a WD 60GB.

Thanks

 

[benjamit]

what os and file structure?

any partitions?

fat 16 limits hdd size if running nt4

fat 32 should be fine win 95, 98

95, 98 can't read ntfs or fat 16

2000 formats fat 16 for smaller drives unless you tell it to format fat 32

 

[MortimRex]

Ok...

Windows 98SE

Single Partition

Fat 32

 

[thorin]

"95, 98 can't read ntfs or fat 16"

95 can read fat16 100% no problem. And I suspect the same of Win98 although I've never done it.

Thorin

 

[benjamit]

maybe it was my luck

i had fat 16 win2k partition

installed 98 on it with option to replace win2k

98 installed but only part way, could not load

 

[AndyHui]

Check with FDISK that it shows up as a 60GB hard drive (it should probably say something like 58.5GB or so).

The A7A266 has no problems with drives as large as 60GB.

 

[BurntKooshie]

98 can use FAT16 - there's a conversion utility to change to FAT32.