I have a western digital ide caviar WD2500 and 250 gig hard drive. when i put it in the pc the bios reads it as a 250 gig drive, put when i try to partition it it says its only 141 gig does n e body know how or why i can not access the full 250 gig. There are no jumpers only master or slave. Any help would be most appreciated, or is the drive duff ?
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may hd maybe faulty ? 1
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Are you trying to partition the drive within your OS?
I would download Western Digital's drive tools.
I would download Western Digital's drive tools.
Source: "When the original Windows 98 fdisk is used to partition a hard drive larger than 64GB, fdisk does not report the correct size of the hard drive. The updated Windows 98 fdisk is not designed for 48-bit logical block addressing (LBA), so it does not support ATA drives larger than 128GB (137 billion Bytes)."
"When you use Format.com to format a partition or logical drive that is larger than 64 gigabytes in size, Format.com does not report the correct size of the drive being formatted at the beginning of the format process. However, as the formatting process progresses, the entire drive is formatted, and the correct formatted size is displayed when the operation is finished."
Note: Since the Windows 98 Fdisk was not designed to support 48-bit LBA, I also would not attempt to use the Windows 98 Format command on any partition that goes beyond the first 128GB of a (larger) hard drive.
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"When you use Format.com to format a partition or logical drive that is larger than 64 gigabytes in size, Format.com does not report the correct size of the drive being formatted at the beginning of the format process. However, as the formatting process progresses, the entire drive is formatted, and the correct formatted size is displayed when the operation is finished."
Note: Since the Windows 98 Fdisk was not designed to support 48-bit LBA, I also would not attempt to use the Windows 98 Format command on any partition that goes beyond the first 128GB of a (larger) hard drive.
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