HD problem with partition in win 98

[ron2368]

I have a HD that I added, drive d. It is 20 gig but was partitioned to be 2 gig on this same pc by a trial of acronis true image. I cant get the acronis to remove the partition and restore it to 20 gig. I have tried using fdisk but whatever I do it still comes back to read 2 gig.

I really am not sure if I used fdisk correctly, probably not. It only formats as 2 gig with a complete format. Scandisk runs fine but I assume its only on the 2 gig area.

I have now tried to use paragon partition manager, but it still only sees this hd as 2 gig. I have tried to fix this for several hours and am at wits end, someone please help me! Thank you

 

[jackschmittusa]

Bios limitation on a really old rig?

 

[redbeard1]

My guess would be that the partition was created as Fat16, which has a limit of 2gig. When you launch fdisk, you would need to enable large disk support when it asks you, so that you can create a fat32 partiton, which will allow you to use the whole drive.

 

[Slowlearner]

Some of the older HDs have a jumper setting called DOS limitation, i.e. 2 gigs, so check the jumpers. This was needed for older systems using dos that can only handle 2 gb hds.