problem with partitoining the hard drive

[krisoto]

a friend of mine gave me a 200g hd but it was partition at 130gig. so, what i did is delete partition,repartition and still the drive shows 130g. i then do the fdisk under pure dos. display it and there is nothing in the non-dos,sec. or other than the primary. i patition the drive, format it but still show 130g then i delete partition. these goes round and round and it would not recover the whole 200 or at least close to it. i used win 98se full edition. with start-up 98 or reboot to pure dos. i did try partion magic 8.0 full version but that won't help as it sees only 130g. is there something i miss here? pls. help

 

[krisoto]

oh it's a wd 200g 2mb 7200rpm

 

[Wallysaurus]

Do you have the jumpers set correctly? Will the BIOS on your motherboard allow the full capacity to be recognized?

 

[krisoto]

yes i did, the jumper, i didn't put any bec. the bios won't recognize the hard drive, the bios i set it at auto.

 

[GilletteCat]

when you boot go into bios setup, run autodetect on the, i assume, primary master, if that's where the hd is. make sure you save to update the cmos information. You either had a 130 mb drive before and there is old info in cmos, or, it'a combination of first making the jumper change, as it was pointed out before, and then either running an autodetect or, if you have all the spect for the drive (usually, the diagramm is right on it) setting all of it manually through the "user" defined setings for heads, clusters etc...

 

[redbeard1]

Unless you have a board with at least ATA 100 capabilities, you are stuck at that limit. To be able to see all of these big drives you need a 48 bit IDE controller, which means it is at least ATA 100. Also I believe win98 will only see about that size of a drive natively. You need to install software to enable the operating system to see above 127 gig. If your using an intel based board, they have a driver that enables the ability to see big drives. Who ever made your motherboard should have a driver to enable this.

What motherboard are you running?

 

[RobCur]

Limitation for ATA66 = 128GB, like he says you need at least ATA100 to access bigger drive. Most of my computer are ATA100, thank god so I would have no problem if using 160GB or larger but currently I have only 120GB