When installing a drive larger than 64 GB in Win 98, FDISK /Format shows the wrong capacity, Why?
Microsoft Windows 98 and Windows 98 Second Edition have a limitation with correctly displaying the capacity for drives larger than 64 GB. This limitation does not result in data loss. The partitioning utility FDISK and the formatting utility FORMAT will incorrectly show the capacity of the drive minus 64 GB. For example, if the drive is 80 GB, the capacity is shown as 11 GB. Microsoft has acknowledged this issue and has released a fix for FDISK. More information on the limitation and the FDISK fix can be found by reading Microsoft Knowledgebase Article. Please remember that depending on the particular utility used, the capacity of the hard drive can be reported in either decimal gigabytes, where 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes or in binary gigabytes where 1 GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes. FDISK reports a drive’s capacity in binary gigabytes. A WD 80GB hard drive’s capacity will be reported as approximately 75 binary gigabytes. Note:If Data Lifeguard Tools is used to partition and format the drive
