I just installed a new hard drive 1

[head32banger]

I just installed a new Seagate 40GB Baracudda IV anf partitioned it and formatted it in windoes98. It only recognizes 2GB. How do I get it to recognize the whole 40GB?

 

[jmatt]

Even if the brand is different , you may find what you wan't to know here .

http://igloo.its.unimelb.edu.au/Webmail/tips/msg00392.html

http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/localcopy/R.Peel/cs250/63001.html

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/bioslmt.html

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci213802,00.html

http://www.spcug.org/reviews/bl0107.htm

http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/

 

[wolluf]

Did you enable large disk support in fdisk when you partitioned it 9otherwise it will create a fat16 partition - max size 2GB)?

Is this an old machine? (ie, does bios support > 2gb hard drives)?

 

[head32banger]

I did enable large disk support and it still partitioned 2GB. I have a new motherboard, an ASUS A7N266-VM, with a phoenix BIOS.

 

[Comtech]

What bootdisk did you use?
It's possible (you say you "formatted it in Win98&quot that your machine is in MS-DOS compatibility mode, and thus only the 2gb partition. Cheers,
Jim

http://members.cnx.net/reboot/

 

[wolluf]

So the bios definitely sees 40GB (POST screen)?
If so, go back to fdisk, and run the display partition details option on this (second?) disk. It should show 38GB free. If it does, just delete existing partition and try creating a new one.

If no good, try running this utility instead to view/create partition -

http://www.lpacomputers.telinco.co.uk/PD.zip