Windows 98 Says I have two hard drives

[Catchen22]

Here's the problem. I have one hard drive on my computer. Windows 98 SE is saying that I have two hard drives. My hard drive is 40 GB but when I look at my system settings it says that my hard drive is "C" and "D". How can I get it to reconize that I have only one hard drive?

 

[HaroldW]

Sounds to me like it's sectioned off into two partitions. Check both "C:" and "D:" drive and see if added together the space is roughly 40Gig. That would confirm it. There are two common solutions to this;

1. Use Partition Magic to create one large (40Gig) Fat32 partition.
2. Complete system reload, but first, make a boot disk, copy over fdisk to the floppy, boot from floppy, use fdisk to delete both partitions then create one large (40Gig) Fat32 partition.

 

[AKA]

Where are you seeing this? In my computer or the hard drive properties in device manager?

 

[FreakyGuy]

What HaroldW said. It sounds like you have 2 partitions on the hard drive. That's not a bad thing btw.

 

[Catchen22]

Where are you seeing this? In my computer or the hard drive properties in device manager?

I see it in " My Computer "

 

[minendo]

i agree with the other guys. its probably partioned into two different sections.

 

[CTho9305]

<< i agree with the other guys. its probably partioned into two different sections. >>



this is not a bad thing. if they are reasonable sizes (say, both at least 10 gig) then a good idea is to install windows + programs to one partition, but keep your data on the other partition. if you ever need to format, you only format the windows/programs partition, and lose no data

 

[AKA]

Go to device manager, disk drives and double click on your hard drive then click on settings.. if current drive letter assignments show a c: & d: then you have one hard drive with two partitions. Like the others say.. not a bad thing, its more of a good thing.

If it shows only c: then you have a virtual drive loaded. Check your config.sys file for an entry like subst D: c:\****
If you see that line.. rem it. Then reboot... now you will only have 1 partition.

But its most likely just two partitions. Use that 2nd partition to install important applications, store your music, pics, documents, email etc.