unallocated part of drive?

[agit8er]

upgraded from win98se to xp. Removed my 6.4 gig fujitsu(primary master w\ win98se op sys on it). Installed a new 100gig WD and changed boot order and then did a clean install of XP. XP shows 32g of the 100g and only 1.97g of the 6.4g.

My award bios did not support large drives and I didn't want to use the layering software so I upgraded the bios chip. That went fine.

Now in computer management of XP under Disk 0(C I show the 31.48G NTFS with 61.67G unallocated.

under Disk1(D I still show 1.97g

If I try to access drive D it ask me if I want to format.
Is that because XP is only seeing 1.97 of the 6.4g?

What can I do with the 61.67 gig that shows as unallocated?

I am also not sure how to go about changing the cmos to see all of the 6.4gig. I did before years ago but can't seem to make the changes. I know how to change from auto to user defined but my cursor jumps from type to mode. How can I change the drive sectors, cylinders etc?

I have the info.. 13,410cyl 15 heads 63 sectors.
My new bios had a pile fo predefined but none are the same.

Whew!! long winded I know

Thanx for any guidance

 

[wolluf]

The 61.67Gb - you can create partition(s) and format them in this space (using disk management in XP - run diskmgmt.msc). If you want a contiguous 100GB partition (without reinstalling), you will need something like Partition magic to merge the 2 partitions.

As to the other drive - have a look at that in disk management too. See if there are 2 parts to that also. 1.97GB is suspiciously close to the 2GB max FAT partition size. You are sure drive has a 6.4GB fat32 partition? If so, can you put it back as master and boot from it? Did you want the 98 operating system to be operational (ie, some sort of dual boot) or are you just concerned about retrieving data?

 

[jmatt]

Windows doesn't deal with disks over 64gb, without this patch

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=KB;EN-US;q263044&

This patch allows fdisk to "see" larger drives.

 

[wolluf]

xp does with ntfs - which is what he's using - its not the issue here

 

[jmatt]

Your right wolluf , thanks .

 

[agit8er]

The main reason I want to get the drive up and running is data retrieval. My new bios chip info shows that I can boot from alot more drives than previously. The 6.4 is current set as master on channel 2. As far as operational, no. Just to get some family photos and a few word docs.
I burned most things before the upgrade but doesn't it figure, I missed something.

I was using an ata66 controller card in the old set up. That was how my system was able to see the 6.4gig master and a 2gig slave.

I keep reading about user defined in cmos. Entering in the drive values etc. I can access the areas and it shows 2.112g for the 6.4gig. I just don't know how to enter the cylinders sectors and heads. I had someone at my house a few years ago prior to the controller card and he entered the values manually. I ran for two years with the 6.4g and 2g on my old bios.

still baffled, but never a quitter!

agit8er

 

[agit8er]

Like I said, I'm not a quitter.

reset the jumper on the 6.4gig to a setting not shown anywhere. I always ran this drive as primary master with the jumper setting as 5-6,2-4 with 1-3open. This shown by fujitsu.com as well as on the drive as master. Slave is something else as is cable select. Just for fun I tried taking off the 5-6 under the assumption that it was a default and I was using a controller card previously. Since the ata66 could see the entire drive due to it's own bios, I never fooled with the jumpers.

With the 2-4 shunted only, Win XP sees 6.4 gig.

Thanx for all the tips

 

[jmatt]

Thanks for letting us know .