80GB hard drive in WinXP

[John Thon]

I used Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools to partition
the drive. If I boot win98 and fdisk the info presented is
incorrect. Still getting size as 10MB with an active
patition somewhere around 76GB. can only format to 33GB.
Motherboard is brand new ( 1st Mainboard ) with latest
bios. AN19C board with bios vesion 6 VMA46.bin. WinXP will
only format 31.4GB.

pulling my own teeth!
John

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello John

Well boot with your win98 disk, here is a link to one
http://www.bootdisk.com
Then do the following. No this is provided that there is no
important data on the drive.

1. Boot to the floppy disk
2. At the A:prompt FDISK
3. DELETE all partitions
4. And then create your new partition multiple if you like
4A. mAKE YOUR PARTITION ACTIVE
5. Another good program to use is Partition Magic
oNCE YOU COMPLETE YOU SHOULD REBOOT and be
able to format the entire drive, provided that your mother supports
it, in which you have already commented on

Alvin




John Thon wrote:

> I used Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools to partition
> the drive. If I boot win98 and fdisk the info presented is
> incorrect. Still getting size as 10MB with an active
> patition somewhere around 76GB. can only format to 33GB.
> Motherboard is brand new ( 1st Mainboard ) with latest
> bios. AN19C board with bios vesion 6 VMA46.bin. WinXP will
> only format 31.4GB.
>
> pulling my own teeth!
> John

[Andy]

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article - 263044
Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Hard Disks Larger than 64 GB
The information in this article applies to:

* Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
* Microsoft Windows 98
* Microsoft Windows 95

SYMPTOMS
When you use Fdisk.exe to partition a hard disk that is larger than 64
GB (64 gigabytes, or 68,719,476,736 bytes) in size, Fdisk does not
report the correct size of the hard disk.

The size that Fdisk reports is the full size of the hard disk minus 64
GB. For example, if the physical drive is 70.3 GB (75,484,122,112
bytes) in size, Fdisk reports the drive as being 6.3 GB (6,764,579,840
bytes) in size.
CAUSE
Fdisk uses some 16-bit values internally to calculate the size of the
drive. Some of these variables overflow when the drive size is equal
to or larger than 64 GB.
RESOLUTION
NOTE: This hotfix is not designed for 48-bit logical block addressing
(LBA) hard disks, and it is not supported on hard disks larger than
137 GB.

The English version of this fix should have the following file
attributes or later:

Date Time Size File name Operating System
---------------------------------------------------------------
05/19/00 10:30am 64,428 Fdisk.exe Windows 98
05/18/00 8:35am 64,460 Fdisk.exe Windows 98 Second Edition


On Wed, 28 May 2003 10:34:23 -0700, "John Thon" >
wrote:

>I used Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools to partition
>the drive. If I boot win98 and fdisk the info presented is
>incorrect. Still getting size as 10MB with an active
>patition somewhere around 76GB. can only format to 33GB.
>Motherboard is brand new ( 1st Mainboard ) with latest
>bios. AN19C board with bios vesion 6 VMA46.bin. WinXP will
>only format 31.4GB.
>
>pulling my own teeth!
>John