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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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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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