Small Partition for Compaq 1245 Laptop

To All,

A friend of mine has a Compaq 1245 laptop running Windows 98. After
reformatting he can only get 2.1GB patitions instead of the entire 20GB
partition. Any ideas to get the largest partitioin possible? Could this be
a limitation of the original bios?

Thanks
Mike

Michael Thomas

"Michael Thomas" <> wrote in message
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> To All,
>
> A friend of mine has a Compaq 1245 laptop running Windows 98. After
> reformatting he can only get 2.1GB patitions instead of the entire 20GB
> partition. Any ideas to get the largest partitioin possible? Could this
be
> a limitation of the original bios?
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
>

when he partitioned the drive using fdisk
he neglected to enable large drive support

best to run fdisk again and be sure to enable large drive support...
then delete the partition
then recreate

reboot and format

"Michael Thomas" <> wrote in
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> A friend of mine has a Compaq 1245 laptop running Windows 98.
> After
> reformatting he can only get 2.1GB patitions instead of the entire
> 20GB partition. Any ideas to get the largest partitioin possible?
> Could this be a limitation of the original bios?

Nope, you used a 95A or earlier boot disk. If you use 95B or 98 (any
flavor) you can use FDISK to create a FAT32 partition instead of the FAT
partition you now have. FAT is limited to partitions of 2.1GB or less, FAT
32 is limited to partitions of ~2TB or less

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