[hooverjo]

Hi,

I am adding a new 2.1 G drive to my ancient Toshiba T1900C laptop. I inserted it under the keyboard and started Partition Magic. PM recognized the full capacity in FAT32. I converted it to FAT and now it only recognizes 51.2 MB on the drive.
I guess FAT doesn't like partitions over 2 G.

Anyway, how do I start over? Whaterever I do, the laptop will only recognize 51.2 MB.

John

 

[phOny]

Sounds like a bios issue to me, have you updated it?

 

[hooverjo]

Thanks. It is, and so I ran Toshiba Disk Manager and everything is copecetic.

 

[johnwill]

You need to fire up PM again and fix the drive. You are correct in assuming that FAT16 only recognizes a 2gig maximum size partition. You need to make it a FAT32 partition, and it'll work properly.

 

[hooverjo]

FAT32 and Win95A

Will FAT32 work with Win95a?

 

[SPEEDO]

No! But you didn't say you were using Win95................:no:

 

[hooverjo]

WIN95a

sorry, it's in the box on the left

<--------------------------------------- :angel:

 

[johnwill]

If you're running W95a, it's probably past time to upgrade to at least W98. Most systems that are running W95 will be compatible with W98, and it'll be a lot easier to deal with large disks, to name just one of many benefits.

 

[hooverjo]

Thanks for the advice. I have Win98 on my Dell XPS R400 (dual booting with XP) and my other laptop. This old laptop only has 20 MB RAM (max), so I am worried about overloading it with Win98.

John

 

[johnwill]

With 20mb, I can see why you're concerned! Maybe it's time to just retire that one? Of course, you could load W95b on it, that includes support for FAT32...

 

[hooverjo]

I got it from a trash bin for my 9-year-old. We're fixing it up to learn and have fun. (Along with an Apple 7100/80 - yikes!). Now I just have to figure out how to get IE 5 installed w/o access to the internet. I found a web site with downloads, but it hiccups with all the zipped files. X(