Robin Ashe wrote:
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.
Thank you Robin
The disk is seen, the jumpers and bios are set correctly, the 512mb is a dos limit, I think I must have OSR2 as I've never hit a limit with 95 before.
I though 98 might be a bit heavy, I'd like to keep his data and programs intact and I'm a little doubtful if my 98 disc can upgrade or that it will do the job properly.
I have a boot disk or 2, a win98 disk should fdisk the drive without the 512 limit but will 95 be able to see the partitions and format them properly. I'll take a few floppies and my MDK install cd which has a very good partition utility which can format the partitions as Fat16.
Sorry my first pc was a P3 so I avoilded most of this, 95 is on one machine and about 4 emulators which I dont think have drive files larger than 2 gb.
cheers
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