I'm WinDumb and I admit it!

[Holley]

It could be the motherboard, but it's unlikely.  Windows 98 has a limit, IIRC it's 35Gb ish.  I've hit that wall and dual-booted into Win2K, been able to access the rest (without '98 seeing it).  Windows NT4 can handle bigger drives BTW, but can't handle a USB Webcam.

If you can find a copy of Partition Magic it'll probably work better than FDisk in reporting what you can/can't do.

[Holley]

I dunno, I had a lot of trouble with partitions on a 10GB drive with NT4. Windows 2000 is the only version of Windows worth a crap IMO

I guess you had the same problem here, as I did before.  I guess Windows2000 had a workaround for the limit I was experiencing before, judging by what people have said here it's a bios thing - like an Amiga once booted a OS can circumvent the bios (or 3.1 FFS) though.  I've only ever flashed to fix bios bugs ...

My favourite version of Windows is 3.1, that was the last one where I knew what every single file did ;-)