Quick question about my new hard drive

[rpc64]

I just got a Western Digital 80GB 7200rpm drive. When I go into fdisk to format it, fdisk only sees 10GB. My motherboard detects it and sees the correct size. What can I do to fix this? Thanks

 

[rpc64]

bump

 

[zCypher]

Perhaps you are using an old version of fdisk which won't support the size of your HD. Try using such software as Partition Magic. Maybe that will help.

 

[woodie1]

Get a Windows 98 start-up floppy and when you fdisk it should ask you you something like do you want support for large disk. Say yes and you should be good to go.


http://www.bootdisk.com/

 

[Tbirdkid]

Do you have an ata133 card? or does your mobo support ata 133? I believe you may need one of those. My 40 gigger did it to me and when i upgraded to a bigger newer system it supported it so no problems here. Good luck

 

[Derango]

Originally posted by: Tbirdkid
Do you have an ata133 card? or does your mobo support ata 133? I believe you may need one of those. My 40 gigger did it to me and when i upgraded to a bigger newer system it supported it so no problems here. Good luck

you don't need ata133 support to see all of an 80GB drive...I think the limit on that was somewhere around 126GB

 

[rpc64]

I was able to get it formatted using Partition Magic. Thanks for your help guys.