Western Digital 1200BB & Fdisk :(

[Paulson]

Fdisk is recognizing my drive as a 54 gig or 48 gig drive. The bios however detects the drive as 120034 (megs)...

Any Ideas?

 

[Viper GTS]

You're not trying to set up a FAT32 partition on it, are you?

You need to use NTFS.

Viper GTS

 

[AndyHui]

If you are using a Win98 boot disk, the version of FDISK on Win98(SE) can only cope with drives up to 64GB. From there up, it displays the drive size as (real size - 64GB).

To FDISK using the old version, you cannot put in absolute partition sizes.....you must use percentages.

I can't remember if the WinME FDISK fixes it, but in any case, the new version of FDISK that copes with drives larger than 64GB is available in a link at the bottom of my FAT32 vs NTFS FAQ.

 

[Antisocial Virge]

You need a newer version of fdisk or use the dos disks with partition magic, they seem to make things easier.

 

[zzzz]

search google for free fdisk

 

[goog]

MS Knowledge Base Link
Above works for Win98(se).

Fixed in WinMe.

I'm soon going to be formatting a WD1200JB, received yesterday.

 

[pm]

I formatted a 1000BB using FAT32, but I needed a newer version of FDISK.

 

[Paulson]

I tried a Windows Me boot disk and that didn't work either...

hmmmmmm

I can't figure out how to get free fdisk to work either 🙁

 

[Paulson]

Ok, I got it partitioned, but I can't format the damn thing no matter what... 🙁

Anybody got any ideas?

Thanks...

 

[John]

Why not use NTFS? Fat32 is for wimps.....

Boot to the Win2K cd, partition and format during setup.

 

[Paulson]

Mine doesn't work 🙁

D:\i386\winnt.exe

That's all I know of and everytime I start up the setup it says no swap file and wont let me do anything?

What am I supposed to do?

 

[John]

The cd is bootable. Change the boot sequence in your bios to floppy, cdrom, hdd and when you see a msg to "hit any key to boot to cd", do so. Setup will then commence automatically.

 

[pm]

<< Fat32 is for wimps..... >>

Or backwards compatibility with other OS's. 🙂

 

[Paulson]

I said screw it and stuck in Redhat 😀

lol.. 🙂

Got the job done!

 

[Wolfsraider]

why not just use the western digital disk and when it asks about using xp say no and format and partition as one partition worked for me 😉

hope this helps

 

[dcdomain]

I just used the WinME bootdisk to fdisk and format. Even though it gives you the wrong count when formatting, just let it finish. When you boot into Windows, it'll recognize all the space.

 

[JellyBaby]

<< Or backwards compatibility with other OS's. >>

And also compatability with utilities like Ghost which I've heard doesn't manage FAT32 & NTFS perfectly.

 

[goog]

<< why not just use the western digital disk and when it asks about using xp say no and format and partition as one partition worked for me 😉

hope this helps >>



Oddly that didn't work for me, it wanted to make 24 2GB partitions and forget the rest, old system disk I guess.
Formatting and partioning to NTFS using WinXP pro and booting from CD worked like a charm.