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I recently had some problems with a hard drive and decided to reformat. I did that and reinstalled Win98 and all was ok until the next time I rebooted. Then it would freeze in the boot-up process. I was unable to do anything so I reformatted again and reinstalled Win98 again. Everything is working fine now but my hard drive has gone from a 20GB to a 4GB. Why would that be? I never partitioned anything. Only reformatted. Anybody know?
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8+8=16+4=20gig I think windows os uses 8gig I think or close
maybe you have it on there twice Ive never worried about it,well I have to go and get ready for golf practice ill be back in 2 hours

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So Windows 98 uses 8GB? Then how do I have it on my other 2.5GB HDD? Win98 doesn't use that much space sorry to say. According to Microsoft Windows 98 FAT 32 only uses 175MB and FAT 16 only uses 225MB. Where did you get 8GB? Just curious?
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sorry I was talking about xp
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sorry I was talking about xp
Even then, Windows XP doesn't require anywhere near 8 gigs for a typical installation.

I'd like to see where you got your figures.

Jeff, is your C: drive the only hard drive you see in My Computer? Do you have say, C: D: and E:? Or just C: and D: ?
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Yeah the only drive I have is C:. D: and E: are my CD-ROM drives. If I go into to BIOS setup it shows a 20GB HDD but in windows it only shows like 3.92GB.
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Yeah the only drive I have is C:. D: and E: are my CD-ROM drives. If I go into to BIOS setup it shows a 20GB HDD but in windows it only shows like 3.92GB.
Well, I hate to tell you this, but somehow your partition got a little screwed up. Sure you didn't fiddle around with fdisk before reinstalling?

It's not a FAT16 problem, as it's capacity limitation is 2 gigs. Right-click on the drive and tell me what the Type of Drive is. It should say FATxx.
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Even then, Windows XP doesn't require anywhere near 8 gigs for a typical installation.

I'd like to see where you got your figures.

Jeff, is your C: drive the only hard drive you see in My Computer? Do you have say, C: D: and E:? Or just C: and D: ?
It was just a rough figure I dont have to worry about this with my 80 gig hard drive I should of asked you first freinged since you work for microsoft we are all still waiting on you to write that IE patch of yours.

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