FDISK

[Spawndude]

I ran FDISK on a new 15 Gig 5400 Maxtor harddrive using a WinME boot disk.

K6-2 450 CPU and a Tyan Trinity mobo. 128 meg ram.
Went into BIOS and set to Auto Detect
HD set to master, no slave on primary
CD ROM on secondary master,no slave on secondary.

Made three partitions C: 3 gig, D: 500 meg, E:10 gig (or what ever was left).
Rebooted, formatted C,D,E. No problems encountered. As expected E: took the longest to format.

Installed WinME, drivers, cards, etc. No problems.

Opened "My Computer" and found only a C: and D: drive

D: was CD ROM, C: was formatted to maximum capacity ( 14 gig or so)

Any ideas what happened???? I've never had anything like this happen!!!

 

[HotWire]

Maybe your bios can't detect anything over 8.4 Gig which was the limit on many older motherboards.

 

[mitso]

use the progam that comes with the maxtor or HD drives.
much more direct. I used fdisk many years ago, and got in trouble
if i was a bit careless - didn't usually know what i did wrong.
never have any problems with the maxtor or HD programs.

 

[seind]

Run fdisk again and check the partition information. If it's displayed correctly it could be a BIOS problem as mentioned above.

What is the capacity shown in the bios setup screen?

 

[Spawndude]

BIOS recognizes the whole 15 gig

When Fdisk was run again it showed the 3 partitions I had set up.

Beats the heck outta me whats goin on, everything appears to be working fine.