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exatreide

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Well I just relized something wrong with my hard drive on the out side of it, it says 20 GB

but when i look at it in my computer(the little pi graph thingy) it says 3 out of 8 gigs used. Wtf why isnt it deceting the rest of the hard drive? It formated when i installed it, so um why

gryphon

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Beer ?!

If I recall correct Gila isn't old enought according to US rules to drink that is he ? ;)

[ if it is still 21 ]

anyway, It shoudl be ok I think. Due to the fact that the size of hard drives is messured in 2 ways. The first is the one the manufactorer uses. Just the totall data. And the second is after you have formatted the drive. bit's will turn to byte's, and they will disapear into larger ones, Kilo, Mega, Giga and so on. Only instead of a kilo being 100 or 1000 of the previous one. [ ie. 1000 units of the value "mega" will result in one value of "giga". You need 1024 MB to get 1 GB. If you calculate that though a 10Gig drive should be about 8 something formatted using a DOS of NTFS based file system. [ Thought even slightly less using a UNIX based one in some cases ]

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That is probably the worst explenation you have had, althought I hope it still makes some sence . . :)

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gryphon

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sorry, my mistake. . I calculated from 10 on the disk not 20 :-[

[ ok, don't wrub it in, I feel stupid allready. . . ]

To be shure, you put the disk in as you got it and it found the partition by itself ? YOu didn't have to create one on it ?

gryphon

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Never mind, the new post is so it will show up as new in the forum. . .

If I remember correct you are using Win98 ? And the second guess is you are using the FAT32 filesystem ? [ that type only supports 8 gig disks in some cases or run' sbest on 8 gig disk, FAT16 supports only 2 gig and the maximun for Win98 and Fat32 is about 32 gig I think ] You will have to use Fdisk to get the rest of your disk partitionised.

I'll see if there is a good only walk-through on how you have to do that, or mayby The Doc or Number6 know of one.. . so hang on, the answer is comming :)

and btw. Does you BIOS dettect it as an 20 gig disk ?

gryphon

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Just edited it as I realised the error in it. :)

Fat32 run good on a 8gig disk. Has got something to do with clustersize. .. So I thought the previous ownner had either a bounch of 8 gig partitions or Win98 might make an 8gig disk by default as the size of the disk seems to be more then coinsidence in that way. [ Win98 with FAT32 supports a max of 32 gig ]

So did you partition it yourself, and if not, do you by any change know how to ad an extra partition to it ? :)

exatreide

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ok, i have win 98 edition one ol school :P

ok i got another problem to, my browser refuses to suport images, they just wont load on this site and others (empited cookies and all temp files and that didnt do anything)

the only way i could get the drive to be dected was if i set it in removable and f disk only says fixed drives..

exatreide

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alright i tried switching my second hard drive back to fixed drive. but now it refuses to decet it. if i put on LBA i get a bad disk something press anykey when fixed. Is there a size limit to removable drives?

they only things i can check beside the hard drive in systems is Removable and DMA whatever DMA is...

and 1nt 13 unit is checked and i cant un check it

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Have you tried filling the hard drive up past 10 gb to see if you really have more than it states in the OS?

(not recommended) although if BIOS and the label on hard drive says 20 gb, then it should be unless somethings broke.

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