Bear with me please only built up a few computers and have yet to see this. Recently got a new Hard drive with an 80 gig capacity however there is a small complication. It only seems to recognize 10,780 megs when I proceed to format. I would have believed it was my BIOS but I recently exchanged my old board for a MSI KT4 Ultra and thus have a new BIOS to go with it. This 80 gig will be my only hard drive because the last one I had died so I'm starting from scratch. I've never run into this before so if anybody has any tips on what I should do it would be much appreciated.
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Older versions of fdisk don't recognize large drives.
It could also be a jumper on the drive, limiting it's capacity (rare).
I have an 80 gig Seagate on the same exact board, and have no troubles. Cheers,
Jim
It could also be a jumper on the drive, limiting it's capacity (rare).
I have an 80 gig Seagate on the same exact board, and have no troubles. Cheers,
Jim
If its win98 fdisk you're using - either go here or get an ME boot disk (from if you're already using ME or patched 98 version of fdisk, that site also has a link which says the format command for both 98 & ME reports wrong size, but actually works (ie, you will have an 80GB formatted partition when its finished).
If you're creating multiple partitions, set them using % in fdisk, instead of bytes. Fdisk may report the wrong disk and/or partition size, but at the end of it all, it works out right. Cheers,
Jim
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