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Incorrect hard drive capacity in Win98s reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)'
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Incorrect hard drive capacity in Win98s reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)'
Sunday, June 2, 2002 at 8:38 am
Posted by Bill Packard
(2 messages posted)
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?
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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
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?
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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 1:40 pm
Posted by MeTaL
(333 messages posted)
I take it you ran fdisk in dos and used large disk support?
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?
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re: Incorrect hard drive capacity in Win98s reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)'
Tuesday, February 25, 2003 at 3:14 pm
Posted by Don Weber
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Yes, use Partition Magic, and for a 40GB HD, *FIVE* 8GB partitions could be best,
because an 8GB partition is the largest size that still uses the smallest Cluster
size of 4KB, which will give you the most efficient use of your disk space for many
files with widely varying sizes (especially for many small files). However, a few
really large files do very well in larger partitions, which would have larger Clusters.
I find that Partition Magic itself really helps me find the best fit for certain
partitions with specialized purposes.
Don Weber <>< donweber@starpower.net
On Sunday, June 2, 2002 at 9:50 am, Jorge M. wrote:
>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.
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re: Incorrect hard drive capacity in Win98s reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)'
Tuesday, January 6, 2004 at 8:54 am
Posted by Ron Jeremy
(1 messages posted)
Dont worry about it
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?
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re: Incorrect hard drive capacity in Win98s reporting the wrong amount of free space (FAT32 Free Space Bug)'
Thursday, January 22, 2004 at 3:22 am
Posted by G Muchos
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I have the same problem but my drive is a slave 8GB, and the system info thinks its
only 4GB..
Can you post the resolution..
thanks
On Tuesday, January 6, 2004 at 8:54 am, Ron Jeremy wrote:
>Dont worry about it
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