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I have a Dell Pent. II laptop that I have loaded Win 95 on. Although I have a 6 GB HDD, there is only 2 GB capacity showing. Do I have to install Win 98 to get use of the full 6 GB? Is there a special format to use?
Any suggestions/clues will be appreciated.
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Your Windows 95 is probably taking up most of your space and 2mb is what is available for data files.
How can you live on a 6mb hard drive ??
You can get a 200mb hard drive now on desktops for $100 or so in some cases.
Yes, 6 GB is not much space but I am using the laptop for mainly word processing and viewing text files. Since it is an older model I do not want to spend much money to upgrade the HDD size. Later....
The later 95 or b or such offered FAT32 support and larger than a 2GB partition. If you only had Windows 95 then you can create more 2GB partitions until you use up the space.
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Ok, thank you for the insight. So, if I upgrade to WIN 98 I should be able to use the whole 6 GB. I am using this laptop for limited functions such as word processing. I might be able to pick up an economical copy of WIN 98 on Ebay.
I guess I will have to price it and see if it's worth it.
you could pick up an larger hard drive for the cost of the Windows 98 on ebay ...
A 60gb or 80gb notebook drive can be had for under $100 and a screaming fast 7200rpm Hitachi 60gb hard drive can be had for under $200.
Of course you have to make sure the hard drive you want to upgrade to is compatible with the notebook bios limitations, etc.
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