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re: Incorrect hard drive capacity in Win98s reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)'
Sunday, June 2, 2002 at 9:50 am
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Posted by Jorge M. (610 messages posted)


You'd better use Partition Magic to repartition the whole hard disk. I'd say that for a 40GB HD, three or four partitions would be best.


On Sunday, June 2, 2002 at 8:38 am, Bill Packard wrote:
>When I installed a 40GB hard drive selecting FAT32 the BIOS shows it, but in Windows98SE
>under system information it only shows 2048MB. How can we overcome this?


Written in response to:
Incorrect hard drive capacity in Win98s reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (Bill Packard: Sunday, June 2, 2002 at 8:38 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: Incorrect hard drive capacity in Win98s reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (Don Weber: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 at 3:14 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Incorrect hard drive capacity in Win98s reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (Bill Packard: Sun, Jun 2, 2002, 8:38 am)
-re: Incorrect hard drive capacity in Win98s reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (Jorge M.: Sun, Jun 2, 2002, 9:50 am)
*re: Incorrect hard drive capacity in Win98s reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (Don Weber: Tue, Feb 25, 2003, 3:14 pm)
*re: Incorrect hard drive capacity in Win98s reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (MeTaL: Sun, Jun 2, 2002, 1:40 pm)
-re: Incorrect hard drive capacity in Win98s reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (Ron Jeremy: Tue, Jan 6, 2004, 8:54 am)
*re: Incorrect hard drive capacity in Win98s reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)' (G Muchos: Thu, Jan 22, 2004, 3:22 am)
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