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8th Mar 2009, 16:45
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I am running 98SE and last year I added a 160gb hard drive which I partitioned successfully into 4 x 40gb drives.
Recently, windows decided to play up and the desktop would not load, telling me instead that I had performed an illegal operation and closed down. There seemed to be no alternative but to reinstall windows 98se which I did and it sorted the problem. I then decided to repartition the 160gb hard drive into three partitions so I could put XP onto one of them. Now when I run fdisk, the drive is reporting that it is only 21553 mb, ie much reduced. I know that there is a problem with reported disk capacity with 98 and so I partitioned by percentages instead of size but the reported total capacity was still only the 21odd gig. I also found that windows would not format these logical drives, saying instead that the drive is damaged and may need to be replaced. I believe the hard disk is OK and I was able to format the drives using msdos but still the capacity is reduced to 21gig. I may be doing something daft but if so, I can't see what. Any ideas? |
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8th Mar 2009, 17:28
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http://www.msfn.org/board/Corrected-...AT-t85573.html discusses the issues. I've no idea how you got away with your four-partition initial fdisk if you used the one on 98SE, it's not supposed to be possible.
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There's a 64GB partition size issue. There's a 137GB drive size issue hitting the addressing limit of 32 bits and requiring the LDA 48-bit format for the partition table. One of those FDISKs - probably the GNU version - will run fine for you. My System: Tim
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8th Mar 2009, 17:37
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Why not boot with the XP Disk and use the installation wizard to remove all partitions, then let XP create one large partition and install it.
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You can then use Acronis Disk Director or Partition Magic in XP, if you want to shrink the partition/create new ones. My System: Home Build
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9th Mar 2009, 04:53
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No, I can't understand why I managed the four 40gb partitions, I can only assume it is because I partitioned it as four lots of 25% and windows was then able to recognise them as 40gb drives. I can't remember what capacity fdisk thought it was when I did it, I know it wasn't 160gb though. I didn't discover the 137gb limit until I encountered the current dilemma and had a poke around the internet looking for clues. I suppose I could load xp as suggested but I don't want to do anything that might compromise the present OS cos if the computer puts its legs in the air, words will be said. I think I will try the alternative fdisk and see what capacity that recognises.
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11th Mar 2009, 16:48
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Tried fdskfrmt.exe from the msfn link and completely successful! It just modifies the standard fdisk.exe and format.com supplied by MS and then big disks are reported with correctly displayed capacity. Many thanks.
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#6
11th Mar 2009, 18:21
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Congratulations and well done.
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