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re: How big?
Friday, April 9, 2004 at 10:47 pm
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Posted by KC (5 messages posted)


It says its formatting 4,118.22M. I tried using the 95 (B) startup disk. THe computer wouldn't take it, it asked for the 98 diskette instead. I have tried to format it again and it is not doing anything. Says - not ready Format terminated. Help!


On Friday, April 9, 2004 at 8:35 pm, Jerry wrote:
>Hi KC:

>
>How big is your hard drive?

>
>If it's bigger than 2GB, then you're going to have to use a Win95 "B" version BOOTDISK
>(with its FDISK program) to partition the hard drive into one partition bigger than
>2GB. If you're using an "A" version bootdisk, that version can only "see" the first
>2GB of any hard drive larger than 2GB (and stops there).

>
>Another option for "A" version users is to partition a large hard drive into 2 or
>3 separate 2GB partitions. More than 3 partitions can be set up using "logical"
>drives, but it gets a little messy.

>
>Jerry


Written in response to:
How big? (Jerry: Friday, April 9, 2004 at 8:35 pm)

Responses to this message:
*Let's go back to FDISK (Jerry: Saturday, April 10, 2004 at 6:51 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Can't finish installing Windows 95 (KC: Thu, Apr 8, 2004, 3:31 pm)
-"You can never go back" (Jerry: Thu, Apr 8, 2004, 9:33 pm)
-re: "You can never go back" (KC: Fri, Apr 9, 2004, 6:04 am)
-How big? (Jerry: Fri, Apr 9, 2004, 8:35 pm)
-re: How big? (KC: Fri, Apr 9, 2004, 10:47 pm)
-Let's go back to FDISK (Jerry: Sat, Apr 10, 2004, 6:51 pm)
-re: Let's go back to FDISK (KC: Mon, Apr 12, 2004, 9:43 pm)
*That's good. (Jerry: Tue, Apr 13, 2004, 9:11 pm)
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