my present config of win 95 only reconizes 2gb of hard drive space prob is i have 6gb hdd and befor i was crashed by virus i was able to use all how can i fix without going to win 2000.

with respect

Well Win9x comes with a utillity called "Fdisk" which should alow you to partition your hard drive (In other words you should be able to tell the computer to use ALL of the hard drive).

You said that before the crash you could see all 6Gb of your hard drive right?
Now you only see 2Gb, right?

First let me say i few things:
FAT-File Allocation Table is used to partition your hard drive
FAT16-used by windows 95A supports up to 2Gb hard drive
FAT32-which can be used by windows 95B supports up to 2Tb
Windows 95 version A-this is the first windows 95 release
Windows 95 version B-this is the second release with many inprovements

I bet when you installed that 6Gb hard drive you put version B on it or you put A on and upgrade to B and converted the drive to FAT32.

But when you installed windows 95 after the crash you only installed version A which can only allow for there to be 2Gb of hard disk space in one File Allocation Table.

To fix your problem simply buy a windows 95 version B disk or download the fix from windows update.

Hope this helps.

Originally posted by comptech
You said that before the crash you could see all 6Gb of your hard drive right?
Now you only see 2Gb, right?

First let me say i few things:
FAT-File Allocation Table is used to partition your hard drive
FAT16-used by windows 95A supports up to 2Gb hard drive
FAT32-which can be used by windows 95B supports up to 2Tb
Windows 95 version A-this is the first windows 95 release
Windows 95 version B-this is the second release with many inprovements

I bet when you installed that 6Gb hard drive you put version B on it or you put A on and upgrade to B and converted the drive to FAT32.

But when you installed windows 95 after the crash you only installed version A which can only allow for there to be 2Gb of hard disk space in one File Allocation Table.

To fix your problem simply buy a windows 95 version B disk or download the fix from windows update.

Hope this helps.

thanks i am going to try

with respect