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goddamn Windows can't see what's in front of its face...

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1000schnauzers:
I have a 25GB hard drive that I had partitioned and formatted for a Linux installation.  Got a bigger drive, and now I want to use the 25GB for a Win installation so I can play games on an old machine I have hanging around.  I used fdisk to delete the Linux partitions and set up a FAT32 partition.  I installed W98 and all went as well as could be expected, but when I check the properties of C: it tells me that it's 3GB total.  I've tried repartitioning and reformatting, but to no effect.  What the fuck is this thing's problem?  Anybody else ever deal with this?  Why can't it see all the space on the drive?
  :mad:

cahult:
Try get hold of a Mac and get it to format the drive for you in PC format. Maybe then the damn OS will know what

Stryker:
while in windows open fdisk and how much does it say is unpartitioned? It is possible that windows decided to format it as fat16, which can only go up to 2gb i think. If not, then i'd unpartition everything, and just start the windows setup. it shold partition it, restart, and then format it, then install, then restart, then install, then restart, and then work. (never had to restart while installing linux)

Calum:
personally i'd use linux fdisk to remove all the partitions and then use DOS fdisk to create one big fat32 partition. maybe that'll work, maybe not. Also, that fat16 thing sounds plausible too, since the block size in a fat16 filesystem increases depending on the full size of the partition (i think) making it a useless choice for any filesystem over about 300MB. Of course it's useless for anything to tell the truth, but it's the only filesystem supported by microsoft OSs made before 1995.

eXor:
Don't blame windows lol

Some simple fdisk activity with windows or linux or even partition magic should sort it out.

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