20GB HDD seen in Bios, only 6GB HDD seen in windows?

[CJWask]

Hi,

My bios automatically detects my 20GB Harddrive, and so does my 'Norton Utilities system information' software on my Windows 98 system, BUT, when viewing properties of the 'C' drive in 'my documents' folder, only 6GB is seen.

I have just upgraded to an AMD Athlon 2000+ with a K7S motherboard and 256 DDR memory, thinking my old system was limiting the harddrive, but the problem is still present.

Very confused....

Your help is appreciated!!!!!!

Kind Regards,
Clinton

 

[wolluf]

If you open my computer and right click on C: drive and go to properties that should show you total capacity of the drive and how much is used. If this is showing 6GB total capacity, and you have no more partitions/drives, you may just have some unpartitioned space (don't know how you set this up initially). You can run fdisk from a dos box and use option 4 to display partition information and option 1 to create extended partition if there is (presumably about 14GB) unused space.

If this is the case, and you really want just one 20GB partition, you'll either need to reinstall 98 after backing up, deleting exisiting partition and then creating new 20GB one (from win98 boot floppy) or use something like Partition Magic.

 

[CJWask]

Thanks!, I'll give it a go.

Kind regards
CJW

 

[jmatt]

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