There are ways to get around this problem, but since these Operating Systems are rather rare nowadays, I do not see the point of writing about them. Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME will not support big drives (>137GB) even if you install all hotfixes. Operating System does not support LBA-48 addressing mode Now I will go through these things one-by-one and provide some more details.
There are several common reasons of why your hard drive might lose some megabytes or even gigabytes:
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