From: Andrew Webber (awebber_at_sgml-mercs.com)
Date: Mon Nov 15 1999 - 10:53:12 EST
On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 01:01:06 -0500, Bill Morrow wrote:
>1. you do NOT need to upgrade to win98 to get all of a
>10gig to be seen..
>2. for fat32, win95B is all that is required..
When I put it in my UltraSlimBay, only 8 gigs were seen. Even with
Partition Magic v4, only 8 gigs, although I was able to format the
whole big partition as FAT32, it didn't report any unallocated
space.
I asked about it on this list, and it seemed like it might be a
BIOS limitation or some other Win95 restriction (like the 528Mb
limit on my old 386).
>3. if no fat32 is wanted, then ANY windows should see
>that 10gig.. but in 5 partitions..
>4. I have upgraded my 600 several times from the IBM
>preload to win98 and it goes nicely once i overcame
>the silliness generated by MS..
>
>my two cents is do the recovery then upgrade to win98
>if you still want to do it.. :-)
I only wanted Win98 because I thought that's what it would take to
get 10 gig. I'm planning on retaining C: and D: partitions on that
disk, so it doesn't have to be in one partition.
I'll have to do some sort of re-install anyway, since I'm getting
an annoying blue screen regularly (but non-fatal, I "press any key"
and 3 seconds later I'm back where I was).
Thanks for your comments. Any advice on how to see this other 2
gig?
Thanks!
andrew
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