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by faevilangel1

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i have a Fujitsu 6GB hard disk with windows 98 installed, i have also installed a Western Digital 80GB drive,
i want ti delete all the contents of the western digital.
its not shwoing in my computer but its in bios and all the jumpers are set etc

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by cookieorc

Well I am assuming this is an old computer. The BIOS may not actually support that large of a drive. Is it not showing up at all in Windows 98 or is it showing the drive with a smaller size then 80gigs?

by oh smeg

For the Drive?

If it's not there or reported as a smaller size the BIOS can not support that big a drive so you need to add a PCI-IDE Card so you can access the HDD.

Also is this HDD formatted? As you want to delete the contents I would say so but what Partition Type is in Use? 98 can only read FAT 16 & FAT32 Partitions and not NTFS so Windows is working correctly if that is the case. Provided that you can see the full size of the drive in Computer Management you can format it there or you can do it from DOS from either a Floppy that you make from Windows for the Format S command or from a CD if you don't have a floppy drive.

The Ultimate Boot CD has a Formatting Utility on it if you don't already have a CD made up to do this.

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/download.html

by travler92

If your Bios in before 98 (or is 98?) this will be the issue. Get a leter version and you should be able to see the drive.
98 or before limited the size of the HDD to 8gb and the OS will no see anything bigger than that,

Good Luck

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