Displays the wrong amount in DriveSpace

[RodneyMargis]

I am running Windows 98. It has a Fat32 flie system. I installed a Maxtor 120 gb Hard Drive 8mb cache at Christmas. The other day i went into DriveSpace and it said i had a 2 gb harddrive!!I went to my computer and it said i had a 120 so how do i get drivespace to say 120 gb?:confused:

[GaryRouth]

All the information I've looked at so far shows that DriveSpace (original) and DriveSpace 3 (and 3.1) are not compatible with FAT32 disks.

Here's a cut & paste from this Seagate webpage http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/win98_fat32_faq.html
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When I try to compress my Win98 FAT32 drive with DriveSpace or DriveSpace 3, I get the following error:

"Drive C cannot be compressed because it is a FAT32 drive".

Although included with Win98, DriveSpace 3 and older disc compression software is not compatible with FAT32. The version of DriveSpace included with Win98 will recognize FAT32 partitions, but it cannot compress FAT32 volumes. Additionally, if your drive is already compressed, you may not be able to convert to FAT32. DriveSpace was designed to work with FAT16 file systems and cannot be used with drives using the FAT32 file system. There is no solution at this time.
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With 120gb of hard drive, what do you need disk compression for? [if it's digital video, try saving to a special compressed format such as MPEG4, and leave DriveSpace for the Windows history books]

Best of luck
. . . Gary

[RodneyMargis]

Thanks for you re help.