Re: increasing hard drive size

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The file system is tranparent to your games. They do not run in Fat32 or NTFS, they run in memory. If they run in XP they will run regardless of the file system.

After installing XP you can use XP's Disk Manager to remove the partitions on the 120GB drive, create a single partition, and then format.

XP requires only 1.5GB available hard disk space to install. I don't what you are referring to by "it would not let me do this because of the i386 crap." If you are trying to upgrade I would suggest that you do a clean install instead. That should ensure that you have enough free space on the 6GB hard drive.

Given the price of hard drives these days, please consider replacing the 6GB drive with a larger one. 20-, 30-, and 40-GB IDE hard drives are dirt cheap.

Best of luck with your system.

<bsfoss@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:50be4fec-547f-423d-812a-9619f60d63c4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
i am trying to go from windows98 to xp. With my win98 i had 2 hard
drives, 1 6gig the other is a 120gig(this one is partitioned 3 times
20gig each, i could not get more than this, i assume because of win98)
i am now on xp but can only get 30 gig on the 120gig drive, i cant see
the other 2 partitons. i read somewhere if i use fat32 i can only get
30gig partitions, is this true? i dont want to use NTFS because of
some of my older games. i am running an old computer (pentium 700) it
has 512 mb of ram. if i install xp on the 6gig(it would not let me do
this because of the i386 crap) could i then format my 120gig to be
120gig or do i still have to partition it? if so do i have partitioned
4 times to get the whole 120gig? the data on both disks i dont care
about because i already backed up what i needed. if anyone knows how
to fix thanx.

.

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