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From: Garry Short
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:00

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If I understand what you're saying correctly, you've got a 3gb disk, you've
created one partition, then formatted it using DOS?

If that's the case, this is because FAT16 partitions (the only kind DOS
uses) have a maximum size of 2gb. If the partition is bigger than that, DOS
can't cope and defaults to something like 512mb. To get bigger than that,
you'd have to use FAT32, NTFS, or something along those lines.

Your best bet would be to kill the existing partition and create one
partition of 500mb-1gb. Format that and install Win98, then create another
partition within Win98 using the rest of the space, then format it as FAT32.

Regards,

Garry



Kmart <lchan@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> Hi all, thanks for reading this message.
> I just use DOS to format my harddisk(3G) and install win98, but it just
only
> can recongize 500MB only, I think is something related with DOS(since the
> limit is 500MB), but how can I read my harddrive correctly???
> Thanks all
> lchan@sympatico.ca
>
>

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