80GB hard drive in WinXP

[David Jones]

XP will only format up to 32 GB or so if you are trying
to format the drive FAT32. This is because above 32 GB,
FAT32 sees a performance degradation. If you want to
format the whole shot, use NTFS or format from Win98.

Also, the probable reason you see funky results from
fdisk is because you used the WD tools to partition. In
general, there's no need to use those - XP (and 98 as
well) can partition and format 80 GB drives without
needing any "special" tools.

>-----Original Message-----
>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
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