Are you sure you have the jumper settings on the hard drive set properly? If you have the incorrect jumper settings, or have it set on master when it's really slave (or vice versa) it will sometimes report only a portion of the hard drive, the rest being inaccessible. I had a 45GB hard drive report only 2GB because of this once.
If you have Win 95 OSR 2.5 you can use Fat 32 and use a single partition if you wish, but if you have Win 98 you might as well go with that. You can use FDISK on another machine to format it, that shouldn't be a problem. If you can find a floppy disk though it would really help if you make yourself a boot-disk though. Hope this helps. On 5/6/04 5:30 PM, "Darren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.emaculation.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=917&sid=7922399880029ff587ec0 > 67e1bc156c3 > > Haven't tried, something for the week end. > > I have a pc question. How do I get a 4.3gb drive to functuion under > win 95? Do I just partition it or am I better off installing 98. > On a mac I'd just make a couple of partitions, having no bootdisk > handy fdisk would only go to 4xxmb and report the drive full even > though windows showed 1.99gb. I'm seeing the dos limit and the fat 16 > limit I guess. Can I fdisk and partition the drive on a second machine > and then have win95 see and format the partitions? > > The old pc is a 100mhz P1 so I'm in no hurry to upgrade it to 98, the > old 1.2gb drive makes aweful noises and I'd like to swap my elderly > friends data over to a faster drive with a little more room but forgot > about the filesystem limitations. Any help is gratefully recieved, the > old boys only just found the internet and is caning the old drive, > amazing the difference between 8mb and 64mb on the same machine. ;) > > Just purchased a 133mhz 7'dos card for the mac, big upgrade from the > 100mhz, well I hope it will allow more than 64mb of on board ram to be > installed but for $35au it doesn't really matter. Cheers > -- Mac-N-DOS is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... / Buy books, CDs, videos, and more from Amazon.com \ / <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect-home/lowendmac> \ Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Mac-N-DOS list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/mac-n-dos.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-n-dos%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
