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Format problems with new 120GB HDD

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carlton1

carlton1

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Sep 26, 2001
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Just bought a new 120GB HDD and want to partition & format it. According to my bios it sees it as 120GB but when I try to use FDisk to partition it, it only shows as 53GB. Anyone any ideas on this one?
 
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It's FDISK limitation. Try to install OS with NTFS support (Windows NT, 2000, XP). The NTFS may work with some terabytes theoretically.
 
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Thanks for the quick response, have checked out the MS web site and got more details. As I have not got Win98 on my system now, I could not use the download. However, following on from there I found this information and hopefully will solve my problem. Thanks again for your help

 
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Yep that last link helped, everthing is fine now. Thanks
 
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