Posted by DAN on August 30, 19101 at 23:30:41:
In Reply to: partioning a 40 gb hdd posted by shaikh karimuddin on August 26, 19101 at 02:17:03:
TRY TO DETECT IT IN BIOS SET UP AND SAVE AND EXIT,,THEN BOOT OFF A WIN98 SECOND EDDITION BOOT DISK THAT HAS FDISK.EXE AND FORMAT,COM AND SYS,EXE ON IT,,
BOOT WITH FLOPPY AND TYPE FDISK [HIT ENTER]
FOLLOW PROMPTS AND DELETE ALL PARTITIONS,,
THEN REBOOT AND DETECT IT AGAIN IN BIOS SET UP AND SAVE AND EXIT,,THEN BOOT OFF THE FLOPPY AND
RUN FDISK AGAIN,,AND CREAT THEPARTITION,,THEN USE THE OPTION TO MAKE C: BOOTABLE AND CREATE YOUR PARTITION AND REBOOT AND AND FORMAT THE DRIVE,,THIS SHOULD WORK ON THE PENT 500,,
HOWEVER THE DRIVE WILL NEVER WORK IN THE OLDER PENT 166 UNLESS YOU HAVE A VERY RECIENT BIOS UPGRADE,,SUSPECT IT WILL ONLY SUPPORT A 6 OR 8 GIG HARD DRIVE
DAN
: i want to partion a 40 gb hdd of western digital. but when i use fdisk to partition it it detects only 20 gb.in the bios it detect the full capacity as 40 gb.i have even used dm for western digitalalso ez-drive. but the result is the same it detects only 20 gb for partitioning. is there any way by which i can configure it to the full capacity. also i want to use it on a pentium 166mhz machine. right now i am trying to configure it on a pentium - III 500 mhz.