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Simple large drive Fdisk Question
Name: dominicus Date: March 16, 2003 at 03:32:39 Pacific OS: P1 CPU/Ram: 48
Comment:
It does look as tho my harddrive's gonna die any minute now, its making horrid grindy sounds i can hear in the other room! I plan to move everything to my second disk, and put in a 3.5 gig harddrive and move everything back. Thing is, its fat16, so ive gotta have a 2gig partition.Will fdisk allow me to create two 1.75 gig partitions, or will it not recognize the size of the drive .How can I make use of the entire disk if it doesnt ? I want two partitions anyways, i wouldnt want one 3.5 gig even if fat16 could go that high, but if fdisk cant its pointless for me to put this particular drive in. any help would be urgently appreciated- i honestly dont know if my present drive can survive another reboot- it gets twice as bad each time i boot up! Thanx muchly!- nick
Name: x86 Date: March 16, 2003 at 03:41:42 Pacific
Reply:
Hi, yes you BIOS should recognise the full size of the hard drive, and MSDOS will go up to 8gig drive size if using version 6, not sure about earlier. Yes can split it into two 1.75 partitions, it does seem you are familier with fdisk. If you use a FAT16/32 boot disk do not say yes to enable large disk support. There are other posts here and in W3.1 about fdisking so good luck
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Response Number 2
Name: dominicus Date: March 16, 2003 at 04:22:14 Pacific
Summary: I tried all the above with no luck. When I tried A:\Fdisk /MBR after 30sec it cam back with " The master boot code has NOT been updated" and returnes to the A:/ prompt. fdisk alone brings up a 512 war...
Summary: Use a Windows 98 version of FDISK. Select Do NOT provide large drive support, and create 2 gigabyte logical drives. That will be C D E F G H I j k L M N O P Q. DOS 6.22 cannot access a larger ...
Summary: I don't know exactly what the error is, but I have the same hard drive and first partitioned it the same way. You will save a lot of troubleshooting trouble if you get a 66 or 100 Mcs contro...
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