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Win98 Not recognising 80Gb HDD
Hi All,
I could use some help, please: I have an 80Gb HDD which is being recognised by the BIOS but Win98 Fdisk only sees it as a 10Gb Drive. How do I get Win98 to regonise the full size of the drive? Thanks in Advance matt |
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Win98 Not recognising 80Gb HDD
"Matt" wrote:
Hi All, I could use some help, please: I have an 80Gb HDD which is being recognised by the BIOS but Win98 Fdisk only sees it as a 10Gb Drive. How do I get Win98 to regonise the full size of the drive? Thanks in Advance matt Hard Disk Limited to 8-GB Partition Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 153550 http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=153550 (your BIOS may not be *fully* capable of supporting these large drives). Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Hard Disks Larger than 64 GB Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 263044 http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=263044 Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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Win98 Not recognising 80Gb HDD
"Ron Martell" wrote in message ... "Matt" wrote: Hi All, I could use some help, please: I have an 80Gb HDD which is being recognised by the BIOS but Win98 Fdisk only sees it as a 10Gb Drive. How do I get Win98 to regonise the full size of the drive? Thanks in Advance matt Hard Disk Limited to 8-GB Partition Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 153550 http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=153550 (your BIOS may not be *fully* capable of supporting these large drives). Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Hard Disks Larger than 64 GB Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 263044 http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=263044 Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." Hi Ron, although I haven't read MS' KB docs .. I've got two 80gig Barracudas running under Win 98SE without any problems. I do seem to remember having a hiccup while prepping the drive ( fdisk & format etc ) I didn't use any extra routines to play with the bios .... maybe set the MB bios HDD settings to LBA ?! I work with one drive and use Karen's Replicator to backup to the other drive every night. Good luck Matt. I even managed to get Win 98SE to work with 1 gig of DDR400 memory. Adjusted a setting in Vcache. Cheers, Bernard |
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Win98 Not recognising 80Gb HDD
"Bernard Rother" wrote in message ...
"Ron Martell" wrote in message ... "Matt" wrote: I have an 80Gb HDD which is being recognised by the BIOS but Win98 Fdisk only sees it as a 10Gb Drive. How do I get Win98 to regonise the full size of the drive? Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Hard Disks Larger than 64 GB Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 263044 http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=263044 Hi Ron, although I haven't read MS' KB docs .. Uh..why not? I've got two 80gig Barracudas running under Win 98SE without any problems. You say "without any problems", but above you say 98 is not recognizing the full size of the drive. If you read the article on fdisk, you'd see it relates to your (non)problem. 80*(1000^3) - 64*(1024^3) = 10.5GB |
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Win98 Not recognising 80Gb HDD
"Bill Blanton" wrote in message ...
"Bernard Rother" wrote in message ... "Ron Martell" wrote in message ... "Matt" wrote: I have an 80Gb HDD which is being recognised by the BIOS but Win98 Fdisk only sees it as a 10Gb Drive. How do I get Win98 to regonise the full size of the drive? Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Hard Disks Larger than 64 GB Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 263044 http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=263044 Hi Ron, although I haven't read MS' KB docs .. Uh..why not? Sorry, my mistake. I thought you were the OP. |
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