AboutThomas Expertise I like to help people as far my knowledge goes...i can help with Hardware Problems, Some parts of Multimedia and some internet related topics. and lots of basic stuff
Experience used to Windows XP, Network Administration, working in an IT department for over 5 years now, was working before as Hotline Support for Compuserve Germany, worked for Dell and HP in technical support in Germany from 97 to 99. But please dont ask Me things about Server Operating System and Microsoft Office Products. As the freqent questions about Password related topics are rising up, i dont answer any Questions about "How do i logon my system when i forgot my password". Answering this would be against the laws in my country, and excuse me, i dont know you and nobody can prove me that you really want to log on to your pc and not anyone else. Thx in advance.
Education/Credentials was on a lot of trainings for Microsoft Software
Awards and Honors I answered more than 3700 questions in my 2 years on askme.com,
currently working in an IT Department...since 1999
Question hi,
i have couple of questions, i have a desktop pc. my pc is running win98 w/ a xp upgrade. recently my hdd (40gb) went bad on my desktop,so i replaced it with an internal hdd (160gb), when i turn on the pc, the screen only shows the size of the hdd as 131gb? i think i have read or heard that win98 is not capable of reading large hdd, it can only read 137gb or less? is there something i can do so the win98/ xp upgrade recognize the real size? my next question is if a buy an external 500gb hdd, will i have to partition the hdd so the win98/ xp recognize it? do i have to make each partition less than 130gb? or am i barking up the wrong tree altogether?
thanks for your time,
joe
Answer which file system are u using ? FAT32 or NTFS ? XP can recognize HDD which are 160 GB, but i am afraid that the hardware is the problem not the operating system, older pc's do not recognize such big disks without a BIOS Update in the most cases...
