Microsoft KB Archive/291256

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BUG: Oemsetup.exe May Only Partially Allocate and Format a Large Hard Drive That had Previous Partitions Erased

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Q291256

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition

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SYMPTOMS
When a large hard drive that has a small primary partition is erased with Fdisk, Oemsetup.exe only formats the drive up to the size of the previously erased partition. Oemsetup.exe is supposed to format the full capacity of the drive.

RESOLUTION
Manually partition and format the hard drive by using disk partitioning utilities, like Fdisk.exe. You need to perform the installation of the operating system after you format the hard drive.

STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

 * 1) Fdisk and format a hard drive that is larger than 4 gigabytes (GB). For example, a 10 GB hard drive, with a one 4 GB primary partition and leave the remainder of the drive unallocated.
 * 2) Use Fdisk to delete the 4 GB partition but do not create a new partition.
 * 3) Perform a manual setup of Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition (SE) by using a bootable Microsoft Windows 98 SE OEM CD.

When the Windows 98 SE installation completes the hard drive properties only indicate that 4 GB is available to the user. However, when you view the hard drive properties through Fdisk, you see that the full 10 GB is available.

Additional query words: OEMSETUP.EXE FDISK Windows98 Windows 98se OEM hard drive kbsbk kbopk

Keywords : kbDSupport kbGrpDSOPK kbOSWin98SEbug

Issue type : kbbug

Technology : kbWin98SEsearch kbWin98SE