I want to install Linux but
 

my hardrive is capped of at 8GB I lnow for a fact I have a 40GB hard drive. Is ther anyway to fix this?

How do you have your partitions setup? Do you have any other OS's installed?

just win98se

Is it possible that Win98 is using the other 32GB?



-K

Can't be
Right now the only thing installed on my computer is Win98SE.
When I go to Mycomputer/Hard disk it shows 7.8GB as the maxium space.

When you run the SuSe 8.2 install program what does the partitioner tell you? It should show a 40gb HD formatted FAT32 and then offer you the choice of resizing the FAT32 partition and installing Linux on the free space. Does it not?

I haven't downloaded SuSE yet. So when I download itSuSE will auyomatically fix this?

Then where are you seeing that your drive is capped at 8gb?

It's a problem within Windows(Go figure) that I thought I could fix.
Can I still DualBoot Windows and Linux with 8GB?

Re: I want to install Linux but
 

How old is your computer? The BIOS in many older systems limited the hard drive capacity to 8 GB (actually 8.3 GB); some later BIOS versions had a 32 GB limit. I ran into that on one of my systems this past weekend when I replaced a trio of small drives, none larger than 8 GB, with a single 60 GB unit. I had to install a jumper on the drive to make it look like 32 GB to BIOS, then use a (Windows-specific) dynamic disk overlay to allow all 60 GB to be usable. Fortunately my Linux systems all have BIOS versions that recognize the full capacity of their drives!

If your BIOS date is prior to 1997 that's probably what is happening to you; the simplest solution is to install a HD-controller card at a cost of about $40 USD, to take the place of your existing controller and allow all 40 GB to be recognized.

thanks but i'm broke so...

check your bios settings

How?

Program: Unicore BIOS Wizard Version 3.21
Program: eSupport.com BIOS Detect v1.2 July 21, 2003
BIOS Date: 08/21/00
BIOS Type: American Megatrends
BIOS ID: 62-1005-001199-00101111-071595-IRONGATE-GA7IX002
OEM Sign-On: 7IXE4 F7
Chipset: AMD 751 rev 37
Superio: Winbond 977EF rev 4 found at port 3F0h
OS: Microsoft Windows 98 SE Version: 4.10.2222 A
CPU Type: Athlon(tm)
CPU Speed: 900 Mhz
CPU Max: 1200 Mhz
BIOS ROM In Socket: Yes
BIOS ROM Size: 256K
Memory Installed: 128 MB
Memory Maximum: 1536 MB
Memory Slot 01: 0 MB
Memory Slot 02: 0 MB
Memory Slot 03: 128 MB

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