I just put together a used system with a PII MB, 10 gig Maxtor and W98SE. I partitioned and formatted the HD befoe installing W98 and the Bios and Windows explorer says I only have 8 gigs of total space on an otherwise empty drive. I used FAT32 to partition the drive as one large drive so I can't figure out why it only shows 8 gigs. Here is some info I've found and wonder if it helps to answer my problem:

1) This drive was previously loaded with Windows 95 but was wiped before it was given to me. supposedly.
2) My boot screen shows this message on boot up which I don't understand - "Upper limit segment address - F004" What does this mean?
3) I had to install W98 twice. The first time Setup told me that there was another operating system on the drive and did I want to install anyway? I tried to install but got all kinds of errors. I then installed 98 again right over the previous install and it installed fine. ?????????????

Windows 98 is functioning fine, otherwise. Thanks for any help.

At a command prompt, type fdisk use the Start-up disk
Delete Primary DOS partition,
Delete partition or Logical DOS Drive
Delete Logical DOS Drive(s) in the Extended DOS partition, select each
drive letter to delete.
Delete partition or Logical DOS Drive
Delete Extended partition
Restart your computer with the floppy disk type fdisk
select the Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive menu option, and then press ENTER Press 1 to select the Create Primary DOS Partition menu option, and then press ENTER After you press ENTER, you receive the following message:

Do you wish to use the maximum available size for primary DOS partition?

press Y for the FAT32 file system and you want all of the space on the hard disk to be assigned to drive C, press Y, and then press ENTER.
Press ESC, and then press ESC to quit the Fdisk tool and return to a command prompt.

That's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks so much for contributing to my continuing education. I guess there was a 2 gig partition on the drive which the wipe program didn't delete, huh?

Sey if it fix it.

Well, that didn't do it. I ran fdisk again and it only showed there was one partition on the C Drive. After formatting it still showed only 8 gigs available. But this is weird. DOS shows the following:

8040.27 mbytes total space
323,584 used by system files
8039.96 mbytes available

4096 bytes in each allocation unit
2,058,228 allocation units


The western digital label on the disk definitely show it to be a 10 gig drive. Any more ideas?

Does the motherboard support drives that over 8 GB?? A friend of mine was having a problem casue his mobo couldn't recognizq HD's over 8 GB

Old computers don't support over 8 gigs
But it depends on your motherboard

Hadn't thought about that. The computer is a Micron Millennia with an ATX motherboard and INtel PII 300 MHZ PRoc. It was built in Dec 1997 and originally had Win 95 installed. If this is one of the "old" MBs that won't support more than 8 gigs can I repartition the 10 gig drive with an 8 gig C: and a 2 gig D:? Thanks, guys

you can dl a setup disk from the manufacture's website to overcome the 8 gig limit this should see the full amount.just search their support/downloads section