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Reformatting hard drive for increase GIG

Posted By : Scott of Chandler-Gilbert Community College on September 19, 2001

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I built my own computer. My operating system (win 98) isn't recognizing all of my hard drive. I put a 30 gig in, and it is reading it as a 2 gig. Obviously, a major problem. I was wondering if you had any suggestions on what I should do. Thank you.

This question was answered on September 19, 2001. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.


Hi Brad,

It sound's like you have a 2 GIG Partion on your Hard Drive What you will have to do is reformat the drive.

1.From the DOS PROMPT Run FDISK (BOOT off your BOOT FLOPPY,at the A: TYPE fdisk)

2.When prompted for a large Disk click FAT32 YES

3.FDISK will have a menu with 4 items in it.

4.Delete partitions in this order

.NON-DOS

.Logical Drives

.Exteded DOS

.Primary DOS

5.Create DOS Partion in this order

.Create Primary DOS

.Create Extended DOS

.Create Logical Drives set at 100% of the Drive

6 Esc out of FDISK to get back to the A:prompt

7 REBOOT

8 At the A: type format c:/s

9 When format is complete,remove the floppy and

reboot to the c:

10 Now you are ready to reinstall Windows 98

Good Luck

Scott

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Posted by Scott of Chandler-Gilbert Community College on September 19, 2001

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