Hard Drive Format 2

[wackydj]

I am running 98SE with a primary 80GB HD on a K7S5A Mother board. I have now added a Western Digital 120GB HD and set as slave on the first drives IDE cable. After booting from DOS and running Fdrive the new drive only returns a capacity of 1.9GB in windows although it setup shows it as 120GB. I created a DOS partition in FAT32 and tried formatting from windows and DOS but still get my 120GB drive as a 1.9GB. Any help would be much appriciated.

WackyDJ

 

[GrowingHaze]

So you have run Fdisk and then formatted the drive. I know that FAT (not 32) has a physical barrier at right around 2 gigs. I would suggest you create an up-to-date boot disk. You can find instructions and all the nessicary files at

http://www.bootdisk.com

-Growing Haze

Gates giveth, Gates taketh away.

 

[wolluf]

Wacky - when you use fdisk (presume that's what you mean by fdrive), you need to enter Y in 'Enable Large Drive support'. Otherwise, you get a fat16 partition, max size 2GB as Haze mentioned.

Also, if you're using windows 98, you may be in need of this patch -

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;263044&Product=w98

 

[wackydj]

Thanks Haze and Wolluf,

I will try the updated boot disk although I did Enable Large Drive Support but the 2GB problem still happened. My methode is this. Power off, disconnect original drive in case of accidents, boot from floppy that I made from the machine, identify new drive, select large disk support and then format. I will delete the present format and try again.

 

[micker377]

Make sure you re-set the partitions before format.

 

[wackydj]

Thanks everyone, loaded MS fix for 64GB and tried new boot disk, all worked well and I now have a formatted 120GB drive.

wacky