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Question about Fdisk and win98, or any o/s for that matter
Hello,
I have many problems at the moment, but came here for perhaps some advice Fdisk, just prior to instal of win98 Question is regarding the " % " symbol while making partitions on a clean hdd. The hdd in question is 80gig. I already know about Fdisks limits above 64gig hdd's....... but already know that that can be overcome by simply not nominating the size during partitioning with Fdisk, and rather just using percentages ( %)....... I know this because I have already done it on my my primary computer. Bottom line is,,,, when Fdisk asks for the size of partition or percentage, does the ' % ' symbol get put in before the nominated %, or does it go in after? I.E.... if i want to allocate say '10%' for the first logical drive, do i write it like this ' 10% ' or like this ' %10 '? it has been over 3 years since i have done this. this all came about today when i wiped an 80gig drive clean, then proceeded to to make a primary and some logicals using Fdisk. after finishing what i thought was a job well done, i then proceeded to load on 98se to the freshly formatted c:drive...... no problem there, cept when instal finished, i noticed 2 partitions were missing, then noticed that nothing was as i had set it up in Fdisk.... so, i guess i just want to be sure about the % symbol before i start again. cheers. |
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Question about Fdisk and win98, or any o/s for that matter
Shut up and go away, Dan.
-- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Imemine" wrote in message ... Hello, I have many problems at the moment, but came here for perhaps some advice Fdisk, just prior to instal of win98 Question is regarding the " % " symbol while making partitions on a clean hdd. The hdd in question is 80gig. I already know about Fdisks limits above 64gig hdd's....... but already know that that can be overcome by simply not nominating the size during partitioning with Fdisk, and rather just using percentages ( %)....... I know this because I have already done it on my my primary computer. Bottom line is,,,, when Fdisk asks for the size of partition or percentage, does the ' % ' symbol get put in before the nominated %, or does it go in after? I.E.... if i want to allocate say '10%' for the first logical drive, do i write it like this ' 10% ' or like this ' %10 '? it has been over 3 years since i have done this. this all came about today when i wiped an 80gig drive clean, then proceeded to to make a primary and some logicals using Fdisk. after finishing what i thought was a job well done, i then proceeded to load on 98se to the freshly formatted c:drive...... no problem there, cept when instal finished, i noticed 2 partitions were missing, then noticed that nothing was as i had set it up in Fdisk.... so, i guess i just want to be sure about the % symbol before i start again. cheers. |
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On Tue, 13 May 2008 19:08:30 +0930, "Imemine" put
finger to keyboard and composed: I already know about Fdisks limits above 64gig hdd's....... There is an updated version of FDISK that fixes this problem. Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Hard Disks Larger than 64 GB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/263044 - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. |
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"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... Shut up and go away, Dan. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com Excuse me gnat, is this how you represent microsoft product users,,, or are you just one of those creatures that suck up precious air for no reason? How dare you.!! |
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If you're not Dan, I sincerely apologize. The percent sign goes after the
number. But I'm pretty damned sure you're Dan, a mentally ill person, a congenital liar who sometimes drops in and pretends to be all kinds of people with all kinds of dreamed up computer problems and reams of fantasies about who he was in real life. In that case, I stand by what I said. Shut up and go away. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Imemine" wrote in message ... "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... Shut up and go away, Dan. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com Excuse me gnat, is this how you represent microsoft product users,,, or are you just one of those creatures that suck up precious air for no reason? How dare you.!! |
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"Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... If you're not Dan, I sincerely apologize. The percent sign goes after the number. Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User Stick to your first bit,,, I am Not Dan,, whoever he is. I merely came here because I am having some computer problems at the moment and am trying to post to the correct groups in the correct order. (netiquette is beyond fussy lately, either way, I am trying to do it as expected.) Yes, I believe you are correct about the % sign,, I did it like that and was sure I hadnt at least forgotten that much about Fdisk. Still, I have managed to mess it up, so I guess I have forgotton; is not a big deal, I will go back and give it another shot, its just a time thing that is frustrating more than anything. If you propose another apology, I'm listening. |
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Question about Fdisk and win98, or any o/s for that matter
Once is enough. Call the rest my obsession with someone who REALLY doesn't
give a damn about netiquette. Don't worry too much about where to post in the 98 groups, the Gen_Discussion group is the main one and the safe bet, but then it's prone to the "too many cooks", phenomenon, plus that's where people like Dan like to come and disrupt services. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Imemine" wrote in message ... "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... If you're not Dan, I sincerely apologize. The percent sign goes after the number. Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User Stick to your first bit,,, I am Not Dan,, whoever he is. I merely came here because I am having some computer problems at the moment and am trying to post to the correct groups in the correct order. (netiquette is beyond fussy lately, either way, I am trying to do it as expected.) Yes, I believe you are correct about the % sign,, I did it like that and was sure I hadnt at least forgotten that much about Fdisk. Still, I have managed to mess it up, so I guess I have forgotton; is not a big deal, I will go back and give it another shot, its just a time thing that is frustrating more than anything. If you propose another apology, I'm listening. |
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Question about Fdisk and win98, or any o/s for that matter
Okay,,, then enough said, is now water under the proverbial.
Gary, I tried again to use Fdisk to partition and format an 80gig hdd,, but am not having much luck,, would you be interested in helping? I will go out on a limb and assume you might, if not, perhaps someone else may pick up on this post. Yes, I have a clean 80gig hdd, and for the second time in two days, tried to partition it using Fdisk........ braaaaaak, no luck. I use %'s of hdd owing to known problem of Fdisk not relating to hdd's over 64gig, and IIRC, the work around was to use a percentage rather than nominating a size in Mg's. I must have forgotton more than I am willing to admit, because I manage to create a Primary, followed by an Extended, then a logical. After which, I create 2 more logicals within the same primary. I followed this up by formatting the new partitions, (I format C: with S switch) but after I have successfully formatted both the C and D (D: with no S switch) I carry on to the new E: to whit I get the msg that there is no E: drive.... same with the F: drive that I created. I go back to options only to find that there is only two partitions,,, C and D. This is getting frustrating as the first time I did it,, (a day or so prior to my post here) I actually continued on with my intent, and loaded 98se onto the C: drive. 30 minutes later, I waddle around in Win98, only to find that I ony had two partitions, and that C: had swallowed up 95% for itself. (yet I know for a fact that I allocated 10gig for C: 20gig for D: 45gig for E:, and finally 5gig for F:.... all are approximations as you well know, nothing is perfectly rounded, but all close enough for this issue.) Do you have any ideas as to what I am missing,,, or perhaps even an easier way of doing this in this day and age? Glad the misunderstanding is out of the way. "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... Once is enough. Call the rest my obsession with someone who REALLY doesn't give a damn about netiquette. Don't worry too much about where to post in the 98 groups, the Gen_Discussion group is the main one and the safe bet, but then it's prone to the "too many cooks", phenomenon, plus that's where people like Dan like to come and disrupt services. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Imemine" wrote in message ... "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... If you're not Dan, I sincerely apologize. The percent sign goes after the number. Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User Stick to your first bit,,, I am Not Dan,, whoever he is. I merely came here because I am having some computer problems at the moment and am trying to post to the correct groups in the correct order. (netiquette is beyond fussy lately, either way, I am trying to do it as expected.) Yes, I believe you are correct about the % sign,, I did it like that and was sure I hadnt at least forgotten that much about Fdisk. Still, I have managed to mess it up, so I guess I have forgotton; is not a big deal, I will go back and give it another shot, its just a time thing that is frustrating more than anything. If you propose another apology, I'm listening. |
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Have you tried the updated version of FDISK as suggested by Franc:
There is an updated version of FDISK that fixes this problem. Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Hard Disks Larger than 64 GB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/263044 Try is, first, using real numbers instead of percentages, and see what happens. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Imemine" wrote in message ... Okay,,, then enough said, is now water under the proverbial. Gary, I tried again to use Fdisk to partition and format an 80gig hdd,, but am not having much luck,, would you be interested in helping? I will go out on a limb and assume you might, if not, perhaps someone else may pick up on this post. Yes, I have a clean 80gig hdd, and for the second time in two days, tried to partition it using Fdisk........ braaaaaak, no luck. I use %'s of hdd owing to known problem of Fdisk not relating to hdd's over 64gig, and IIRC, the work around was to use a percentage rather than nominating a size in Mg's. I must have forgotton more than I am willing to admit, because I manage to create a Primary, followed by an Extended, then a logical. After which, I create 2 more logicals within the same primary. I followed this up by formatting the new partitions, (I format C: with S switch) but after I have successfully formatted both the C and D (D: with no S switch) I carry on to the new E: to whit I get the msg that there is no E: drive.... same with the F: drive that I created. I go back to options only to find that there is only two partitions,,, C and D. This is getting frustrating as the first time I did it,, (a day or so prior to my post here) I actually continued on with my intent, and loaded 98se onto the C: drive. 30 minutes later, I waddle around in Win98, only to find that I ony had two partitions, and that C: had swallowed up 95% for itself. (yet I know for a fact that I allocated 10gig for C: 20gig for D: 45gig for E:, and finally 5gig for F:.... all are approximations as you well know, nothing is perfectly rounded, but all close enough for this issue.) Do you have any ideas as to what I am missing,,, or perhaps even an easier way of doing this in this day and age? Glad the misunderstanding is out of the way. "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... Once is enough. Call the rest my obsession with someone who REALLY doesn't give a damn about netiquette. Don't worry too much about where to post in the 98 groups, the Gen_Discussion group is the main one and the safe bet, but then it's prone to the "too many cooks", phenomenon, plus that's where people like Dan like to come and disrupt services. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User www.grystmill.com "Imemine" wrote in message ... "Gary S. Terhune" none wrote in message ... If you're not Dan, I sincerely apologize. The percent sign goes after the number. Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User Stick to your first bit,,, I am Not Dan,, whoever he is. I merely came here because I am having some computer problems at the moment and am trying to post to the correct groups in the correct order. (netiquette is beyond fussy lately, either way, I am trying to do it as expected.) Yes, I believe you are correct about the % sign,, I did it like that and was sure I hadnt at least forgotten that much about Fdisk. Still, I have managed to mess it up, so I guess I have forgotton; is not a big deal, I will go back and give it another shot, its just a time thing that is frustrating more than anything. If you propose another apology, I'm listening. |
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Have you tried the updated version of FDISK as suggested by Franc: Odd, I havent seen any posts by Franc or anyone else for that matter, I believed it was just you and I talking..... something fishy going on. There is an updated version of FDISK that fixes this problem. Will follow link right now,,, and thank you and Franc for it, and any one else that may have contributed that I cant seem to see. Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Hard Disks Larger than 64 GB: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/263044 Thank you.... um,, all. |
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