I have a new comp I built for someone with an 80 Gig HDD and I can't for the life of me remember how to partition the drive so that the entire drive is available. OS is 98SE...any help would be appreciated.
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I have a new comp I built for someone with an 80 Gig HDD and I can't for the life of me remember how to partition the drive so that the entire drive is available. OS is 98SE...any help would be appreciated.
I think if you use the manufactures utility to set it up, it should not be a problem at all and can work as a single 80gb partition (Without dyanamic overlay of course - which is bad)
Also, forgot to mention...there is already a 10GB partition...
fdisk on the 98se startup diskette, or use the drive manufacturer's drive installation utility...
The 10 gig partition already has windows on it? If so, you need a third party partitioning tool, such as Powerquest’s partition magic. Otherwise, FDisk, format, reinstall, Doodaa, doodaa…Quote:
Originally posted by Archangel42069
Also, forgot to mention...there is already a 10GB partition...
ummm,. we talking about one 80gig drive C: ? That case you need partition magic or similar (if you cannot scrap that partition) to resize it.
Or are we talking about making multiple drives out of the 80 gig?
If there is an os, then run fdisk from start, run, command box
If there isn't run fdisk from a startup diskette
You need an extended partition first, then chop it up however many times into logical partitions - which will actually become your drives.
I tried fdisk already, but it only shows a 12GB drive...also tried from inside windows...same deal. This guy is supposed to pick up the machine tomorrow, so I am kinda in a hurry.
edit: He wants an extended partition so that he doesn't lose everything if his kids hose the system...
This is the way I usually do it, but it's been so long since I set up 98...I can't remember how to get it to recognize the rest of the drive. Should I just tell it to use the maximum available and hope that it works that way...?Quote:
Originally posted by NooNoo
ummm,. we talking about one 80gig drive C: ? That case you need partition magic or similar (if you cannot scrap that partition) to resize it.
Or are we talking about making multiple drives out of the 80 gig?
If there is an os, then run fdisk from start, run, command box
If there isn't run fdisk from a startup diskette
You need an extended partition first, then chop it up however many times into logical partitions - which will actually become your drives.
It almost sounds like you have a BIOS limitation here causing this. I didn't remeber it being at 12 gig though.
In Fdisk, is it showing 100% used, and only 12 gig reported?
Well, I wouldn't expect a board with the nForce2 chipset to be limited like that...when I use fdisk it does show usage stats concurrent with a 12GB drive, but when I tried a demo 3rd-party program, it reported the unused 68GB...Quote:
Originally posted by Ya_know
It almost sounds like you have a BIOS limitation here causing this. I didn't remeber it being at 12 gig though.
In Fdisk, is it showing 100% used, and only 12 gig reported?
Something is wrong here then. I say delete all partitions, reboot and creat one partition with a boot disk. If you have time that is...otherwise, tell them that 12 gig is all they will ever need...:pQuote:
Originally posted by Archangel42069
Well, I wouldn't expect a board with the nForce2 chipset to be limited like that...when I use fdisk it does show usage stats concurrent with a 12GB drive, but when I tried a demo 3rd-party program, it reported the unused 68GB...
Quote:
Originally posted by Ya_know
Something is wrong here then. I say delete all partitions, reboot and creat one partition with a boot disk. If you have time that is...otherwise, tell them that 12 gig is all they will ever need...:p
Unfortunately he knows better...and like I said, he wants more than one partition...I know it can be done because I did it before...I just don't remember how.
Let's revisit this one more time. There is one partition on an 80 gig drive, new mobo, and the partition is only showing as 12 gig in FDISK, and it reads 100 percent utlized? So there is no room for you to add and extended partition using the conventional FDISK? Man, something is a miss...What mobo? Is it possible you need to update the BIOS? How about the drive, have you tested it for reliability with the manufactures software?
You are running out of time I gather, so you better try something quick, or tell this guy to wait a few more days…
There is a FDISK (and not only) issue with HDD's over 64GB. See this MSKB article:http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;263044
Partition Magic will do the job much better than fdisk and you can resize and move partitions... just make sure you run a scandisk and shutdown clean before playing... and if you have a spare drive make a backup copy of whatever you have.
Well...looks like I need to shell out.....probably a good idea to be prepared for the eventuality of this happening again. Thanks to all who helped (esp. Kato & CeeBee) As long as I have it done by tomorrow it should be ok...his kid's birthday isn't until friday or saturday.Quote:
Originally posted by CeeBee
There is a FDISK (and not only) issue with HDD's over 64GB. See this MSKB article:http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;263044
Partition Magic will do the job much better than fdisk and you can resize and move partitions... just make sure you run a scandisk and shutdown clean before playing... and if you have a spare drive make a backup copy of whatever you have.