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Old June 2nd 04, 01:28 AM
Malcolm Dowers
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Default 250gB Hard Disk Format Question

Following on from a previous question regarding FDISK
problems with large hard disks (a problem which was
extremely quickly sorted by a couple of very helpful
chaps), I have run into more similar difficulties.

Although my 2x 250gB hard drives have now been
successfully FDISK'ed as Drives C, D, E and F all at about
120gb each, I then cold rebooted from floppy to start
formatting them, however, the format program only reports
about 53gB each.

I was wondering whether there was a new version of the
FORMAT program to accompany the new version of the FDISK
program I used to resovle the first problem. My current
FORMAT.COM is dated 23/04/1999 22:22:00 with a byte size
of 49575.

Thanks in advance.
Malcolm Dowers
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Old June 2nd 04, 01:50 AM
Bill Blanton
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Default 250gB Hard Disk Format Question

According to this it should be okay.
Format Displays Size of Partitions or Logical Drives Larger Than 64 GB Incorrectly
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;EN-US;263045

If your chipset is supported, download and install the Intel Application
Accelerator (disk driver), after you get 98 installed. Win98 does not natively
support 48-bit LBA and you may have problems past 8GB of the second
partition. (128GB).

Read all the docs and warnings and check if your chipset is supported
here-
http://support.intel.com/support/chi.../CS-009299.htm


"Malcolm Dowers" wrote in message ...
Following on from a previous question regarding FDISK
problems with large hard disks (a problem which was
extremely quickly sorted by a couple of very helpful
chaps), I have run into more similar difficulties.

Although my 2x 250gB hard drives have now been
successfully FDISK'ed as Drives C, D, E and F all at about
120gb each, I then cold rebooted from floppy to start
formatting them, however, the format program only reports
about 53gB each.

I was wondering whether there was a new version of the
FORMAT program to accompany the new version of the FDISK
program I used to resovle the first problem. My current
FORMAT.COM is dated 23/04/1999 22:22:00 with a byte size
of 49575.

Thanks in advance.
Malcolm Dowers



 




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