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Partitioning with a Win98 boot disk.
I am trying to partition a blank 80GB hard drive with a Win98 boot disk for
a coule partitions. Even though I select Enable Large Disk Support and then select N for use maximum space, it only shows that there is approx. 10GB of hard drive available. I have checked this drive with other types of utilities and it does show the drive as a 80GB drive. Why is it only showing 10GB available? |
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If you are using Windows Fdisk that is likely your problem. Also is it =
Win98 the upgrade, the early version or Win98SE? If you have a=20 partitioning software available such as Partition Magic or another, free= =20 to test, one that Ron has posted a number of times but I fail to=20 remember, sorry, you might try partitioning with that and see if it work= s=20 and if the additional space can be seen. If you are running an early=20= version you may run into the problem that even if it "sees" the extra=20= space you may trully not have access to it because of OS limitations. I = have been running W98SE with no problems on drives over 600Gigs with a=20= raid board and using raid 5 striping so multiple drives can be combined = to appear as one volume to the system. In my case 5 x 160Gig drives wit= h=20 the equivalent of 4 drives plus 1 drive worth of space for the parity=20= check. Very effective if you need a large amount of space needed for=20= large files. It all begins with knowing your OS. James=20 Original Message On 2/7/05, 7:43:05 AM, "west" wrote=20= regarding Partitioning with a Win98 boot disk.: I am trying to partition a blank 80GB hard drive with a Win98 boot di= sk=20 for a coule partitions. Even though I select Enable Large Disk Support and= =20 then select N for use maximum space, it only shows that there is approx. 10= GB=20 of hard drive available. I have checked this drive with other types of=20= utilities and it does show the drive as a 80GB drive. Why is it only showing 10G= B available? |
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"west" wrote in message ... I am trying to partition a blank 80GB hard drive with a Win98 boot disk for a coule partitions. Even though I select Enable Large Disk Support and then select N for use maximum space, it only shows that there is approx. 10GB of hard drive available. I have checked this drive with other types of utilities and it does show the drive as a 80GB drive. Why is it only showing 10GB available? the problem is with the older version of fdisk you can use a winME bootdisk (avail from www.bootdisk.com ) or else use the partitioning utility that should have come with the new harddrive or avail from the mfg's website |
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Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Disks Larger than 64 GB [Q263044]
http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;Q263044 Or, here is the program that James could not recall: BootIt Next Generation is available from: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ and it does partitioning, makes a compressed image, does many other partitioning chores and is a boot manager. It is not quite as easy to use as Partition Magic but it is half the cost and has more features. Unlike the crippled PMagic demo, BING is a *full function* demo you can try for FREE for 30 days. The web site has a lot of support articles. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP Windows 98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "west" wrote in message ... I am trying to partition a blank 80GB hard drive with a Win98 boot disk for a coule partitions. Even though I select Enable Large Disk Support and then select N for use maximum space, it only shows that there is approx. 10GB of hard drive available. I have checked this drive with other types of utilities and it does show the drive as a 80GB drive. Why is it only showing 10GB available? |
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You can partition you drive using the old Fdisk, if to set partition
sizes not as absolute sizes, but as %%. See: "Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Disks Larger than 64 GB" http://support.microsoft.com/default...;EN-US;q263044 -- Mikhail Zhilin http://www.aha.ru/~mwz Sorry, no technical support by e-mail. Please reply to the newsgroups only. ====== On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 07:43:05 -0800, "west" wrote: I am trying to partition a blank 80GB hard drive with a Win98 boot disk for a coule partitions. Even though I select Enable Large Disk Support and then select N for use maximum space, it only shows that there is approx. 10GB of hard drive available. I have checked this drive with other types of utilities and it does show the drive as a 80GB drive. Why is it only showing 10GB available? |
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