While at a friends last week, they asked what would make a computer slow? After going through the normal scans and such we found that the hard drive was seemingly full. This a Dell P3 system with about 256 MB Ram, and a 7GB Hard drive. The Windows 98SE is showing a almost full 2 GB hard drive while the drive label as well as the Bios are showing a 7GB. (the disk was zero-bit formatted when 98was installed on the machine a year ago.)
Any suggestions?
I too tell them that this system needs to be put out to pasture. But their preteen daughter calls this one her own, so guess it stays for some time.
2006-11-09 23:31:40 · 7 answers · asked by JMKyler3 5 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
There are no other partitions and the file system is fat32 for the whole disk.
2006-11-09 23:40:43 · update #1
The 7 gig disk was probably formatted with a 2 gig partition. Using an utility you could recover the other 5
2006-11-09 23:35:30 · answer #1 · answered by Bill 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Several possibilities. Perhaps there are several partitions (C:, D:, E:, etc.) and you are looking only at one.
Another possibility is that 2 GB have been formatted as FAT32 and the rest as NTFS. In that case, Windows 98 will not recognize them.
2006-11-09 23:36:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
May be 5 gb is in NTFS Partition. Try using XP bootable cd to fix the problem by converting it to FAT 32. This will probably work.
2006-11-09 23:40:54 · answer #3 · answered by Paassion 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
u can check the jumper setting whether it is not set on the limit capacity drive selection.
there may be file system error also like NTFS because win98 doesn't recognise it.
or there may be some other problem
try to resolve it by reinstalling but before that u have to check all parttions by fdisk command.
2006-11-09 23:44:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Verify if there is another drive by going todevice manager. I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems. Some RAM/hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful. Try this site, if you can get what is required.
2006-11-13 14:56:25 · answer #5 · answered by RAS 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you formatted it with enable large disk support?
Unless it is formatted up to 2 Gb.
Please see following URL;
2006-11-09 23:55:46 · answer #6 · answered by yahoo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
use winxp and change the welcome screen to that of win98, that way every one's happy
2006-11-09 23:41:07 · answer #7 · answered by Joshua K 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋