Q: I just bought a 15 Gig Maxtor hard drive for a friend and I am installing on his computer. With the Maxtor utility, everything looks fine. But when Im going through the Win95 installation, I get eventually a point where it says that there is an error in formatting the partition and Windows 95 can not be installed on the system.
Is it possible for me to install Win95 This hard drive with a single 15 gig partition? And if so, what is needed? 0.
Thanks-guy
Re:Ok, thanks! The installation is working now.
Thanks for you help everyone!
Re:The 14.3GB is the full 15GB…
The measurements used by hard drive manufacturers are a little misleading.
Re:So does that mean that there's no way to really use 15 full gigs?
Re:As long as it says that it has USB Support, it will be OSR2 and will support FAT32.
Hard drive manufacturers calculate space according to 1,000,000 bytes = 1MB, not 2^20 = 1MB. A "15GB" drive works out to be really about 14.3GB, as you have found with FDISK.
Re:That's true, but Win95 OSR2 does support FAT32. I assumed this copy that my friend has is OSR2 because it says "with USB support" right on the CD-ROM. How can I check and make sure that it is OSR2?
Re:Your problem is that Windows 95 does not support FAT 32. FAT 32 can have any size partition. You must use Fat 16, and FAT 16 partitions are 2 gigs or smaller. Try using the Maxtor utility again and see if there is an option to use FAT 16. Make your partitions 2 gigs each. You might be able get away with one large partition by running easy BIOS which comes with the Maxtor utility.
Re:I did just start messing with fdisk, but for some reason the partition comes out to only 14307 MB (or something around that). It says there is no space for an extended partition after that. Is that all I can use?
Re:I usually just use Fdisk and then Format. I also recall having problems with Maxtor's utility; I don't bother with those customized things anymore. Fdisk and format do a fine job.
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