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Hope someone can help as I'm all thumbs when it comes to computers & stuff!
I have bought a new base unit with minimal software installed, just Windows 98. It has a 60gig hard drive which was partitioned(?) into - C:20 Gig and D: 40 Gig.
After a couple of days, have been having problems with it locking up, etc and finally it crashed completely. So I decided to reinstall 98 from disc but now Windows can only 'see' drive C with the 20 gig available and not the entire drive. If I run FDISK from the Dos prompt it shows Drive C = 60 gig???
How can I get windows to see the entire drive?
Many thanks or any help.
Cheers
Mark
I have bought a new base unit with minimal software installed, just Windows 98. It has a 60gig hard drive which was partitioned(?) into - C:20 Gig and D: 40 Gig.
After a couple of days, have been having problems with it locking up, etc and finally it crashed completely. So I decided to reinstall 98 from disc but now Windows can only 'see' drive C with the 20 gig available and not the entire drive. If I run FDISK from the Dos prompt it shows Drive C = 60 gig???
How can I get windows to see the entire drive?
Many thanks or any help.
Cheers
Mark
Whats the CPU/mobo? What does the BIOS show the drive as?
To be that would suggest that the system is too old to recognise the entire drive (a symtom of old machines). It could also be that the drive is wussed out! What if you run fDisk, remove all the partitions and restart?
Stefan
>> Edited by docevi1 on Monday 25th August 21:12
To be that would suggest that the system is too old to recognise the entire drive (a symtom of old machines). It could also be that the drive is wussed out! What if you run fDisk, remove all the partitions and restart?
Stefan
>> Edited by docevi1 on Monday 25th August 21:12
Can depend on age of Mobo, though if it seen it before, should still be able to.
Have you ran fdisk to delete all existing partitions then create new ones, even the same size ? Once partitions set, format each partition. Could be that while in fdisk you've altered a partition but not re-formatted that partition individually. Even if clear then reset it as it was.
Have you ran fdisk to delete all existing partitions then create new ones, even the same size ? Once partitions set, format each partition. Could be that while in fdisk you've altered a partition but not re-formatted that partition individually. Even if clear then reset it as it was.
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