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by cmhjon 1 view

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I have a machine running Windows 95B with a 2GB internal hard drive. The user has requested a larger hard drive. I have a 6GB drive available. After cloning the original 2GB drive to the new 6GB drive and connecting it as the master drive, the machine has an awful time booting from it and when it does boot, Windows only sees it as a 2GB drive. I am pretty certain there is a setting somewhere to fix this but am not sure where it is.

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by pendragoran

hi there,

there's a few things to do:
-make sure it's fat32 and not fat16
-try the disk manager from the hd manufacturer. that usually does it.
-update your bios
If all that fails, use partition magic and make 3 partitions of 2 gigs.
One ofthose things should work.

by mj50613

You might have support for FAT32. Go to

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/

and search on fat32 file system. Look at article Q258662 to determine whether YOUR system will support fat32. If it does, then
you should be able to boot up to a diskette containing Fdisk and create an extended partition and format it to FAT32. You might even want to redo the entire drive in FAT32 and reapply your image. Please note that recreating the primary partition with FDisk will lose all information currently stored on that partition.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/ article Q255867 has all the information you need about using FDisk.

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