Fdisk doesn't see the whole drive????

[KLS]

I'm building a new system with an 80 gb Seagate ST380011A.

BIOS sees the drive at channel 1 master (OK) and 80 gb (OK).

Fdisk and Format see the disk as 10781 mb.

What did I do wrong and how do I get the full 80 gb?


Ken

 

[Trashman]

Try using DiscWizard from Seagate, more info HERE.

 

[LiLithTecH]

Or you can try this: (and Updated version of FDISK)

Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Hard Disks Larger than 64 GB

 

[KLS]

Thanks for the help. It was a case of deducting 64 from the total. After formating the size is displayed correctly. I didn't do anything to correct the problem, just formatted, and it all worked out.


Ken