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?

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=
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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=
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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.:


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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

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?

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.
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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?