Western Digital 30 gig problem

[dugan76]

I installed 98 se on this brand new wd 30 gig hard drive. Runs great, however it says the drive only has the compacity of 4 gigs. I have went into fdisk and there is only one partition, can't make a new one because it is full. If I go into the bios and look at the master drive (only have one drive) it shows 30 gig... Out of ideas...

 

[edfair]

in fdisk you should be able to create an extended partition. Ed Fair
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[dugan76]

I tried this last night and still having the same result..

 

[osuman]

Is it possible that you are using some really old boot disk with a version of Fdisk that doesn't have FAT32 capability? I'm not even sure if that could cause this sort of problem, it's just an idea i came up with.

 

[watcheroftheskys]

did you enable "large disk support"?

 

[dugan76]

I somehow overlooked the auto setting in the bios for the hd it was set at 4 gigs....

 

[Jakespeare]

dugan76 - Thank you for humbling yourself by coming back and posting the solution to the problem.
It is a reminder to us all, when doing troubleshooting,
CHECK THE BASICS FIRST.........
It saves LOTS of time.
Thanks again.