How to handle 32 GB+ drives on a Win98 system
- From: "R.Wieser" <address@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:21:13 +0100
Hello All,
I've got an older Win98 system here, and had to replace a drive. As
things turned out, I got a drive with a capacity (40 GB) that poses a
problem to Win98 : its FDISK just tells me that the size is exactly Zero
bytes.
By some tinkering around I got it to admit that it actually had a drive of
40 GB, but now I'm a bit afraid to use the drive : I have no idea if it
actually can access the (full) drive correctly, and won't just, some time in
the future, at a most murphy-an moment trash important data.
So, I searched the Web for an updated driver or any other way to be able to
securily use the drive. Alas, all solutions told me that I had to use
third-party FDISK programs, and that Windows would be limited to using the
first 32 GB only.
As a result I'm posting this message, in which I (here it comes) want to ask
if someone maybe has an idea to how I can get Windows to allow me to use the
whole drive (an updated/special driver ? Other methods ? A (minimal)
file-server solution perhaps ?), and/or what to look out for (so I can use
the drive without worrying about loosing my data).
Regards,
Rudy Wieser
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