8GB Hard Disk Is Seen As 1.94GB

[adam]

I have recently installed a Slave 8.4GB Hard Disk DriveIn
My Computer but my computer only recognises it as a 1.94GB
Hard Drive.
Why?
And What Can I Do To Fix It?

 

[Eric Gisin]

Disks do not show up in My Computer. It will be under Disk Management in
Manage Computer.

| I have recently installed a Slave 8.4GB Hard Disk DriveIn
| My Computer but my computer only recognises it as a 1.94GB
| Hard Drive.
| Why?
| And What Can I Do To Fix It?

 

[Eric Gisin]

Nope. A computer with a limit under 8GB woud not even run Win2K.

The drive is simply formatted FAT16.

|
| Believe it or not, some BIOSes have a 6 GB limit on hard drives. This looks
| like what you're up against.
|
| Upgrade your BIOS.
|
|
| | > I have recently installed a Slave 8.4GB Hard Disk DriveIn
| > My Computer but my computer only recognises it as a 1.94GB
| > Hard Drive.
| > Why?
| > And What Can I Do To Fix It?
|
|

 

[Richard Heindel]

Nope. A computer with a limit under 8GB woud not even run Win2K.

The drive is simply formatted FAT16.

You know, this sounds like what I went through recently with an old IBM I have. I had put NT on it just messing around
and then decided on going back to Win98. It was a 3GB hd split in two, a 2GB & a 1GB. At one time I only saw 2GB total
then bothpartitions and then DOS formatted and both were FAT16. What I ended up doing was loading the NT software and
getting to the point were it asks about partitions, I deleted both and reloaded in DOS and reformatted. Both partition
were now FAT32. Kinda sounds like you have a NTFS partition there.
My 2 cents.

Rick

 

[Colon Terminus]

From an earlier post you stated:
"GHz is irrelevant, people run Win2K on 200MHz."

Now you state:
"Nope. A computer with a limit under 8GB woud not even run Win2K."

Make up yer mind Eric ... which side of the fence are you on?

BTW according to the OP it did turn out to be a BIOS problem.

 

[Eric Gisin]

I know my PC history, do you? A 200MHz machine will handle 8GB, some 32GB. The
2GB limit is ancient.

I don't see any followups from the OP, "adam", so we don't know.

|
| From an earlier post you stated:
| "GHz is irrelevant, people run Win2K on 200MHz."
|
| Now you state:
| "Nope. A computer with a limit under 8GB woud not even run Win2K."
|
| Make up yer mind Eric ... which side of the fence are you on?
|
| BTW according to the OP it did turn out to be a BIOS problem.
|