Win98 lost memory on partition

Furious D · 04-25-2005, 02:33 PM

Any help welcome.

I have just partitioned and reloaded Win98 on my (quite old) PC. It has a 6Gb hard drive.

When I go to Explorer and look at the C drive properties it says I only have 3Gb of disk space.

I partitioned it with only one primary partition and when I check using Fdisk from the command line it says there is 6Gb in a primary DOS partition. Also when booting up the BIOS screens tell me there is a 6Gb disk in place. Where is my 3Gb of disk space gone? I can't reload all my applications and data files.

Thanks
Furious D

Crusty · 04-26-2005, 03:40 PM

Check to see if the BIOS is set to "Normal" , AUTO, or LBA should be LBA or AUTO (I suspect that you may have already checked this) Another possibility may be a disk loader still may be in the boot area of the disk

04-25-2005, 02:33 PM	#1 (permalink)
Furious D Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1 OS: win98SE	Win98 lost memory on partition Any help welcome. I have just partitioned and reloaded Win98 on my (quite old) PC. It has a 6Gb hard drive. When I go to Explorer and look at the C drive properties it says I only have 3Gb of disk space. I partitioned it with only one primary partition and when I check using Fdisk from the command line it says there is 6Gb in a primary DOS partition. Also when booting up the BIOS screens tell me there is a 6Gb disk in place. Where is my 3Gb of disk space gone? I can't reload all my applications and data files. Thanks Furious D

04-26-2005, 03:40 PM	#2 (permalink)
Crusty Registered User Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Midwest Posts: 5 OS: SUSE 9/XP/98/2000/2000srvr/2003srvr/RH fedora 1&2/Mandrake 9,10/Novell 3.12,4.x/SCO V5	Check to see if the BIOS is set to "Normal" , AUTO, or LBA should be LBA or AUTO (I suspect that you may have already checked this) Another possibility may be a disk loader still may be in the boot area of the disk