It may be time [or rather past time] to think about using the hard drive
manufacturer tools rather than MS fdisk and format for ANY drive
manipulation.
The manufacturers newest tools all now have NTFS abilities built-in [some
more than others - of particular interest to dual booters], large drive
abilities, and if you bother to think about it, at least they are STILL
SUPPORTED and updated ...

There are other tools still being supported, such as BING, SuperFdisk and
others [such as FreeDos, Linux, BSD, etc], which also are being updated [or
were]. So this *traditional use* of MS fdisk and format isn't very
intelligent when there ARE other tools available which can deal with the
newer OSs, AND, newer disk formats, access routines, and capacities..

Plainly, it doesn't really make much sense to continue to use tools which
are seriously outdated when dealing with one of the more important elements
of your computer, its storage and from where the OS will run.

Want to use larger drives?
Then consider: a newer mother board [or a used board that supports larger
drives]; a hard drive adapter card [with its own controller/BIOS override];
one of the purported esdi_506 replacements [but your BIOS is still going to
need to support the drive]; USB enclosures {and proper drivers}; stay within
the design limits of the OS and its tools [unless your testing]; or don't
come crying when the disk errors out or the 9X OS craps out. At least until
there are well documented answers available.

MINIMUM MS TOOLS for larger drives:

DEFRAG.EXE 4.90.3000 = from WinME Setup CD
SCANDISK.EXE = from WinME Setup CD
SCANDSKW.EXE 4.90.3000 = from WinME Setup CD
dskmaint.dll = 4.90.3000 from the WinME Setup CD
cvtaplog.exe = 4.90.3000 from the WinME Setup CD

These can be obtained via various sources, example:
http://www.mdgx.com/web.htm
http://erpman1.tripod.com/w98meupd.html
http://www.msfn.org/board/?showtopic=84886
http://www.msfn.org/board/?showtopic=46581
http://www.mdgx.com/secrets.htm#FDPT
http://www.mdgx.com/add.htm

Try Searches for scanfrag.exe {contains scandisks and defrag, check the
dskmaint.dll for the right version}.

optional:
oformat.com = from WinME Setup disk cab - XP ResKit - XP setup disks - other

Then you may need some updates to the system itself, such as:
272621usa8.exe - negative numbers shown
243450USA8.EXE - drives larger than 32 gig
273017USA8.EXE - cache write delay
4756US8.EXE - shutdown supplement
and maybe a few others...

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"Lil' Dave" wrote in message
...
| Its the 128GB (formatted capacity) I already mentioned.... See the
| following note in your enclosed weblink:
|
| "NOTE: This hotfix is not designed for 48-bit logical block addressing
(LBA)
| hard disks, and it is not supported on hard disks larger than 137 GB."
|
|
| --
| Dave
| Profound is we're here due to a chance arrangement
| of chemicals in the ocean billions of years ago.
| More profound is we made it to the top of the food
| chain per our reasoning abilities.
| Most profound is the denial of why we may
| be on the way out.
| "98 Guy" wrote in message ...
| Lil' Dave wrote:
|
| Would appreciate an MS weblink to the more updated form of
| fdisk.exe noted by the respondent.
|
| http://support.microsoft.com/kb/263044
|
|