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Old March 20th 06, 01:26 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general
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Default Win 98 SE and 40 GB USB drive : only 6 GB visible ..

Pull the drive out of the enclosure. Connect it to your PC on ide cable,
jumpered properly of course. If your PC's bios can't "see" the entire hard
drive's capacity, take it to a PC that can.
Remove any partition with fdisk. Install a partition with fdisk and format
it. Put it back in the enclosure. Should be jumpered as master in the
enclosure. If a Western Digital as "master alone" in the enclosure.

If the hard drive has a 32GB limitation jumper, remove it first before doing
any of the above. If the hard drive has an old DDO on it, write zeroes to
it, or use IBM's zap program when connected to a PC not the enclosure. Then
do the fdisk thing for a new partition and format it.
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Jonny
"R.Wieser" wrote in message
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Hello all,

I've recently put a 40 GB drive in an external enclosure with an USB
connection, but have problems with using the drive.

When I try to partition the drive (using the standard W98se FDISK) it
comes
back as a a drive of only 6 GB (which probably has to do with the 32
GB-limit). Applying a number of patches related to drive-size problems
does
not seem to have any effect (although I could just not have applied the
right patch(es) ...)

I've allso tried a version of "efdisk", but it showed my drive as having
Zero cylinders (and would therefore not accept any partition-size input (I
think) ...).

Any insights and/or pointers to what I should do (before I go and tinker
around in the MBR with an Hex-editor and see what I get) ?

Regards,
Rudy Wieser