New computer problem/question

[RevoluChe]

I just built a new computer and everything seems to be OK with it. Everything loads up right, except that it does not have an operating system yet. I have an 80GB western digital drive, the special edition with 8MB cache. The HDD gets detected just fine and correctly in the BIOS. Now I am trying to install windows 98se while I await the arrival of my WinXP CD. This is a brand new hard drive, and while running FDISK to create a partition, the program detects only 10GB of space on the drive. I am currently in the process of formatting this 10GB partition that I created. But here is my question: is FDISK supposed to detect only 10GB on the drive, even though the drive capacity is 80GB (BIOS detects it as an 80GB drive)? I know there is a maximum amount of space that each partition can contain, but why does FDISK only DETECT 10GB instead of detecting 80GB? Am I doing something wrong in the setup of the hard drive (running FDISK, then formatting, then installing Windows)? BTW I did create the partition as FAT32.

Thanks for the help,
Che

 

[Hankvb]

The FDISK included with Windows 98 does not support hard drives over 64 meg. You can get the new file from Microsoft (search their downloads or try the Knowledge Base its a great help for this kind of thing) Or you can manually set the hard drive in the BIOS to 60 gigs until the XP gets to you.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

I have the exact same drive, and I just set the partion to 10% of the total available drive space and it worked perfectly, I also am waiting on WinXP pro, plan to dual boot. You should've gotten something like 76140MB as available for partitioning.