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"Big Hard Drive"

I've got a pretty old computer running Windows 95 with what I think is a 10GB hard drive. However when you check My Computer it is only 2GB. I read somewhere that Windows 95 couldn't handle anything bigger than 2GB.

Anyone know if this is true and maybe where I could get something to fix it?

It is either that it's the first addition of win95, or it is possible that you partitioned thehard drive with only fat 16 not fat 32.

c.b.

No I had to install it

I think that the first adition of win 95 was only fat16 that is why they released win 95 OSR2 so it was fat 32 compatible, was wondering though when you purchased the pc did they already have win95 installed and told you it was a 10gb drive?

c.b.

Thank you, I will try that.

If it was formated in FAT16 it will read as amax of 2GB as that is all FAT16 can do, formating it again but into FAT32 and it should read correctly. Or use the Drive Convertor tool in Win95, but I'm not sure if that will keep your data correctly?!?! Never used it, sorry.

I would have thought if 'My Computer' read it as 2Gb, it would more than likely be 2Gb, doesn't it say in your BIOS (not sure if you can do that or not) or on your startup screen? - DOS kinda thing.

Don't have it. What I should really do is open up the PC and see what is written on the hard drive itself and see if I was ripped off.

I had a 3.2Gb hdd on Windows 95, I doubt very much that what you say is true, why don't you install Win98? :)

I've got a pretty old computer running Windows 95 with what I think is a 10GB hard drive. However when you check My Computer it is only 2GB. I read somewhere that Windows 95 couldn't handle anything bigger than 2GB.

Anyone know if this is true and maybe where I could get something to fix it?