80Gb Seagate only FDISK partition of 10Gb with Win98

[nevets2001uk]

A friend on mine has a problem with his Seagate 80Gb harddisk. He is trying to install Win98 onto a 40Gb partition but using FDISK can only create a 10Gb max partition. After this FDISK will not allow any further partitions as it believes all the disk is being used. In the BIOS it is recognised as a 80Gb drive. I can't remeber if Win98 has a limit on Hard Disk size but I tried downloading another Boot disk version after reading some advice on Tek Tips but that also only allows the 10Gb partition (10781Mb to be exact).

Any Ideas???

 

[Tempest8008]

Get yourself a copy of Partition Magic, fantastic piece of software that'll definately get you setup right.

If the BIOS recognizes it as an 80GB hard drive, what you need to look for next is whether you have LBA turned on for that drive. If you do, you should be able to Fdisk it as a Fat32 partition and use all available space for the one drive (Fat32 can go up to 2 terabytes).

Oh, and make sure you have the latest version of Fdisk.
Failing that, slam the drive into another machine with a newer OS and format and fdisk it from there.