Hard Drive reading wrong.....

[Coolias]

I have a Western Digital 60 gib hard drive, but its showing as a 31.GB. I checked the file system and its in FAT32. Can you guys help me on what I can do to get it back to normal?? I hear alot about fdisk, but don't know what it is. Thanks.

[Bill in SD, CA]

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Size Limitations in NTFS and FAT File Systems

Bill

[stroyal]

I assume you have Win 98.
Start your computer with the win 98 start up disk. At the dos prompt type fdisk, then choose the option to diplay imformation,( I think it is 4). This will show if the drive is partitioned.

What bill said.

[Coolias]

Still doesn't say how to fix it. Also I have windows 98.

[Coolias]

Ok I will try that.

[Coolias]

Ok I will try that. This won't erase my hard drive will it?

[stroyal]

Not if you only choose display drive info. The delete partition option will erase every thing!!!!!!

But like Bill's link said FAT 32 which win 98 uses can't see HD larger than 32GB

[truckpuller]

If fat file can't recongize anything bigger than 32 gig then why does my pentium 1 with 40 gig hard on windows 98 shows it as a 38 gig?
Was just wondering

[jman01pa]

Originally posted by truckpuller
If fat file can't recongize anything bigger than 32 gig then why does my pentium 1 with 40 gig hard on windows 98 shows it as a 38 gig?
Was just wondering

Probably drive overlay software.

[Uncle Bob]

I was going to ask the same question as Truckpuller. P4
machine, Win 98SE 40gb WD Hdd. After OS and a bunch of other
stuff loaded. 36gb+ as free space.