how much is 40 gigs?

[Desmoquattro]

<< I had upgraded a friends p2b-f 2 months back and after updating the bios, it recognized full 45 gig's of the HD. >>



What revision is the motherboard? I don't know but mine (rev. 1.00) would definitely not recognize the full drive. I don't know if it's the bios or what not. 32gb and that was it for a 40gb WD 7200rpm drive. Funny thing is i have a FIC 503+ mobo and that recognized the whole thing. That mobo has a VIA VP3 chipset and performs like crap.

EDIT: Try out the jumpers too...i had to run mine w/o the jumper block to be detected in the first place.

 

[Losty]

huH? i would go with what bigbootydaddy said .. on the ibm there are lots of different settings... ... there's also a 32gb clip setting .. that might be it ... if it's not the old mobo limitation (wierd my old computer handled 40 gb pretty well)

 

[highwire]

Did anyone ask what OS?

Win95b has a 32gig max per partition. At least, that is the info from the MS site said. So, I partitioned my 60g Maxtor to keep the largest partition below the limit. No problems.

Microsoft stated 32g was an architectural limit for Win95 and if you want to go bigger you need win98 or better.

 

[rockhard]

Have a look at the utilities offered by the HD manufacturer.
There should be a utility to allow you to setup the HD, bypassing the motherboards limitations.
I know Maxtor does one.
Do a search of the FAQ's on the HD manufacturers site - there will be a guide on how to get round with their utility there somewhere.

 

[huanaku]

fat32 is limited to 32 gigs in windows2k. If formated in win2k, it will be a max of 32.

 

[Noriaki]

I seem to remember a quote somewhere from Microsoft that &quot;archtectural&quot; differences would not allow Win98 (or SE) to use a single drive bigger than 32Gig. You need WinME for that.

FAT32 has a 2TB limit on partiton size, but I seem to remember somewehre that Win98 has a &quot;false&quot; limit of 32GB.

I could be wrong though.

Try using Partion Magic or WinME to make a FAT32 drive >32GB or even try using NTFS or something....

Could also be a BIOS limitation in which case if your mobo has no fix available a Promise Ultra100 should fix you up.

 

[DeeK]

<< I seem to remember a quote somewhere from Microsoft that &quot;archtectural&quot; differences would not allow Win98 (or SE) to use a single drive bigger than 32Gig. You need WinME for that.

FAT32 has a 2TB limit on partiton size, but I seem to remember somewehre that Win98 has a &quot;false&quot; limit of 32GB. >>


Nope. I run Win98SE and it sees all of my 41GB drive, FAT32 formatted.

 

[Pariah]

There is no limit in Win98. Only a 32GB FAT32 formatting limit in Win2k.

 

[Noriaki]

<< There is no limit in Win98. Only a 32GB FAT32 formatting limit in Win2k. >>

Ahh ok maybe that's what it was. WinME vs Win2k not Win98. My memory is a bit flaky on the subject I don't much care about WinME or 98, or FAT32.

Just ignore me

 

[Zach]

I thought MS has a patched FDISK too, but I thought I remembered it being to defeat an incompatability with 128GB volumes? Since all you RAID people are running around that seems to matter now.

 

[nortexoid]

gotta be bios limitation...select different modes in the bios (i.e. large, LBA, normal)...

i remember having to halve the heads and double the cylinders way back in the days to get larger drives recognized...or was that doubling the heads and halving the cylinders?...actually, i think one of the modes simply does that (large?)...bah, been so long since i've had a bios limiatation.

 

[DeeK]

<< I thought MS has a patched FDISK too, but I thought I remembered it being to defeat an incompatability with 128GB volumes? Since all you RAID people are running around that seems to matter now. >>


Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Hard Disks Larger than 64 GB (Problem affects Win98, patch included)

Edit: added this:
Windows 95 Does Not Support Hard Disks Larger Than 32 GB (no patch)