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Re: Hard drive and Windows 98 - NO LBC

To: Daniel1312@aol.com, spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Hard drive and Windows 98 - NO LBC
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 21:03:31 -0400
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On Tuesday 10 June 2003 05:41 pm, Daniel1312@aol.com wrote:
> PROBLEM IS:  My 30Gb new hard drive is only 2Gb now.  I though the W98
> install would get up to full size.  I realise that W95 would keep it at
> 2Gb.  What can I do now?

I think your motherboard BIOS has the 2gig limitation? How big is your old 
drive?  

Usually the new drives come with instructions that discuss the issue, often 
they include a floppy with a special boot strap loader/driver that gets you 
around the issue.

The manual method to fix your problem

1)Back important stuff to CD.
2)Temporarily remove your old drive C
3)Install you new 30g drive as drive C.
   (setting master/slave jumper) 
4)Install the special boot loader on the new drive.
5)Fresh install of Windows on the new drive.
6)Now put you old drive back into the system as drive D
   (setting master/slave jumper)
6)Now you can copy important stuff from D to C.

OR...

Install Linux and be done with MicroShafts antiquated, sweaty brow,
hair loosing, tangled mess that drains hours of ones precious life.

In Linux, your particular situation is resolved with the following command:
mount -tvfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/oldwin98!

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