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How to access full harddisk size
Name: Brad Rigney Date: October 12, 1999 at 19:27:04 Pacific
Comment:
I decided to reformat my 1024MB SCSI Fujitsu harddisk (the controller is DTC3290 which does not seem to have Bios utlities). I booted from a DOS disk and used Win95 fdisk to delete all partitions then tried to create a new primary partition the full size of the disk. It created a partition of 5MB and now no other space is available no matter what I do with fdisk. Where has my disk space gone to and can someone help me get
Name: Ryan Cooley Date: October 13, 1999 at 02:39:09 Pacific
Reply:
Go to http://members.xoom.com/the_hacks/killhdd.bat and save it to a boot disk that has debug on it. Boot up with the disk, your hard drive to erase should be the firt physical hd on your comp. When you run the program it will delete all partition information and will take all your problems with it. Then partition it however you want.
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Response Number 2
Name: Carlos Hernandez Date: October 13, 1999 at 08:41:13 Pacific
Summary: Hi, I bought a 20Gb harddisk, but it seems that my bios can only address harddisks up to 8.4Gb. How can I get the bios to access the harddisks full capacity? ...
Summary: Thanx Jack, that makes sense but I am not sure if it applies to my case. My hard drive software does not give a provision for making a boot disk. They do give instructions on how to manually set up th...
Summary: ive gotten a couple of emails about a post i placed in the os/2 forrum about how i have so many operating systems on my system and how to do it also on how i set up cdroms for fully automated os insta...
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