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Setting up a IBM Intellistation M Pro running 2 550's with win 98se. Hard drives are SCSI drive C and drive D and they both show 1.9 gig. I Flashed the BIOS and that did't help. Am i missing something or are they realy 1.9's. Also having trouble finding drivers for the video card it is a Diamond Multimedia Fire GL1 AGP need drivers that will work on win 98 HELP!!!!!! and have a nice day

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by oneshadetree

Still can't find drivers, I keep ending up at the same place hahah. Checked in SCSI and it showed small drives there also. Just Repartitioned and formated both drives MYSELF this time and we have 8.46 gig on each. Thanks

by oneshadetree

9.1's on drives thanks just wiped them out and started over that worked. ATI been there no help,I will try the other drivers just to see what happens???? Will also Email them also. Thanks

by lizzy

Hi, you probably already checked this, but just to make sure...

Look at the properties of the C:\ drive and see that it is FAT32 and not FAT. FAT will only see up to about 2GB. You must enable large disk support when formatting the drive for FAT32. You can convert to FAT32 from FAT, but then I think that you will need some sort of partition manager to add the other disk space to the primary partition...

by oneshadetree

Ya good old "BUDDY" didn't know as much as he thought he did, and your right Fat 16 not 32, Defraging gave that away when the old page poped up when it was done wanting to convert to FAT 32. just redone the drives MYSELF this time 8.46 each now Thanks

by digital_dna

I'm with Lizzy! Format the drive FAT32 not Fat16. You may want to use the disk that came with the drive to do the drive format.

ebcdic

by oneshadetree

Thanks (used computer no disks thats always fun) But I know where to come when I have problems. Thanks

by rcom

Ditto on the File Allocation Table(fat)issue. Plain Fat which is 16 bit only supports 2 GB drive size. You'll have to use fat 32 in order to get the full size. You could use a drive overlay program to set the drives up to the full size.

Run fdisk again and use fat 32. If you have critical data on the drives back up or make a image of the drives first.

You could also change the OS to fat 32 using the windows feature included with the system tools then use partition magic to claim the rest of the drive space.

If you have Symaantec's Ghost software, there's another way to save the data on C drive. After changing the drives to fat 32 you could use ghost to copy the contents of C drive to the D drive and use whatever size partition you want, then make that C. Afterwards just fdisk the other drive and put fat 32 on it.

by oneshadetree

All would work , but didn't have much on the drives just os and updates sound drivers ect... nothing that wasn't easy to replace. just redone the drives Thanks

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