Harddisk formatting - part two
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Original Message
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Name: Pepo
Date: October 30, 2002 at 16:31:32 Pacific
Subject: Harddisk formatting - part two
OS: dos
CPU/Ram: 486
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Comment: My 850Mb harddrive has not partitions. That is the problem. FDisk says that it have not partitions. The bios says the correct datas but it have only 520Mb. I think, this harddrive is formatting under any older DOS version that no format more than 520 Mb.
The autodetect of my bios found a 850Mb harddrive too. The cyls and the other datas are correct. That says on the HDD cover.
FDisk will not format up to 850Mb. "format c:" will not too. Summary:
I have a 850Mb hdd, but it have only 520Mb in the really. The bios says 850Mb and the cover of the hdd too. What can I do? Fdisk would not restore my hdd up to 850 Mb.
Thanx PD: excuse my english.
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Response Number 1
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Name: JSLover
Date: October 31, 2002 at 02:32:59 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)When you fdisk do you get a question to enable large disk support? If so say Yes or do you only have dos? not windows 9x's dos or something? What version of dos? An option would be to fdisk & create an extended partition then create a logical dos drive & format d: this would give you the space but as a different drive. You'd end up with C: 520MB & D: 330MB (of course these MB are probably based on 1,000,000 byte mega-bytes so a dos dir will show less...hope I didn't confuse you on this but I just wanted you to expect it).
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Response Number 2
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Name: James
Date: October 31, 2002 at 22:56:59 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Hi,
Go back into your BIOS and check the hard disk Parameters. Over on far right side under MODE make sure LBA addressing is the one entered so that your machine can use the entire disk. Save to CMOS, reboot machine and run fdisk again and you should be able to see all of it. Good Luck
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Response Number 3
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Name: name
Date: November 3, 2002 at 18:19:41 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)I'm thinking maybe you have some silly software or other that is hiding a partition. Microshaft "fdisk" cannot handle a lot of goofy problems, including overlay software like "EZ bios" and "Maxblast" nor can it handle NTFS partions like for NT or W2k or XP, nor Linux/Unix. I'd try typing the model no. of your hardrive into "Google" and going to the hard drive manufacturor's website--see if there is a disc utility there that will help you. Most hard drive maker's have such utilities. Also, someone on either this or the W95 forum posted a hd utility awhile back to "wipe" a partition that may help. Also, do NOT use an old DOS version of FDISK to do this. Either make or download a Windows 98 disc and try that.
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