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Hi there
I have formatted my 30 gig hard drive , but am not sure it has been done properly , is there a problem when you format a drive over 2 gigs , does a dos boot disk not recognise anything over this and you have to do something extra ? hope you know what I am talking about as I need to clear the disk because of a virus and problems that were occuring.
Many thanks
My disk is 30 GB too, and I've never had any problems with it when I used a '98 boot disk, nor XP.
Egads ... go Win2k or XP. Even in 2k l find you should break the primary disk into logical drives if over about 10gigs. Have a 20gig in this machine broken into 2 separate drives, but just to be really weird the slave 40gig drive formated no problems as a single drive.....
I think you'll run into problems with a DOS boot disk on large modern drives.....
Anything before Win95 OSR2 could not recognise paritions above 2GB. We had a PC delivered to us with a 10GB HDD at the time, 5 chuffin' partitions! Add in the CDs and it had 8 drives!
if it has fat32, instead of fat16
Yeah if you wanna be techical :p
I'm beginning to think it was before Win98 actually...hmmm. Yeah, it was probably 98
it was
during win98 setup, they have the screens saying how great it was because it supported this new technological file system :rolleyes: