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Name: Scott
Date: May 31, 2001 at 11:35:22 Pacific
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Does anybody know how to get FDISK to recognize the full 9.1GB of hard drive, so it can be partitioned, when installing OS/2 ver 2.1? We are using an old (as you can tell) version and putting it on a new HD but can seem to get it to see all of the drive.
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Name: Nathan
Date: June 1, 2001 at 06:57:19 Pacific
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I have the same drive in an PS/2 Model 80.

The first SCSI card I had didn't reconize that it was a 9.1GB harddrive. I had to put the drive in a computer that had a Adaptec PCI card to reconize that it actually was an 9.1GB drive. I then had to put it in a machine that had Warp 4 running because FDISK on any other system would not reconize that large of a drive. Win98 FDISK didn't reconize it either.

I then made the first partition FAT with the max size. I then put it back into a Win98 box and brought up FDISK. It won't reconize the full 9.1GB but I said to use the rest of the drive, other than the FAT partiion, as another partition.

I booted into Win98 and formated the second partition FAT32. It reconized the rest of the drive.

The FAT32 driver for OS/2 reconized it also.

You may want to use HPFS for the second partition, which then you won't need to go through that trouble. But, I wanted to run Win95 on the Model 80 box also.

I put the drive back in the model 80. When it goes through power up, it says that it is a 285mb drive. But when Warp 4 boots it reconizes the entire drive.

But, the key is the SCSI adapter and Warp 4.

Nathan


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Name: Scott
Date: June 15, 2001 at 12:14:30 Pacific
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Nathan,
Thanks.. I will be giving that a try very soon. We are running it right now with onlypart of the drive in use. I will copy all the ifo over, and try to re-partition it agian..
Thanks!!!


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