need help my new 80gig hard drive argh@#$%
 

heres the deal, I needed to buy a gig of ram which I did I bought a 80gig hard drive a ups system a cdrw I have a durron 850 mother board k7sem when I go to partition my drive I take off the other drives, pop in windows 98 boot disk and go to partition it, it says it is only a 12 gig drive, and wont go past the 12gig mark the bios see's it as a 80gig drive I don't know what the hell else to do, I am running winxp on the other drives anyone know what I can do? I try to format it using xp but it wont

TOM

I honestly don't know anyone with as many computer problems as you Tom. LOL! :thumbsup

DH

Sounds like a bad drive.

You may want to use the disk manager program from the manufacturer.

IE: is it's a seagate drive go to seagates site and download thier disk manager for it.

What happens if you unhook the other drives then boot from the windows XP cd, can you partition it then?

its a samsung it worked before I Repartiton it it was a nfs and i wanted dos

Win98? Switch to XP dude.

If you take a clean drive and let DOS do the partitioning when installing, it will only set up 12 gig of readable space. Format C: and let windows set-up do the partitioning. You can always create another partition to install DOS in if you really want it...wtf?

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\@home>format E:
The type of the file system is RAW.
Please use the /FS switch to specify the file system
you wish to use on this volume.

C:\Documents and Settings\@home>

tom
i had this problem before..

put in the 98 boot disk in a:

type fdisk

enable large disk support

reboot
then set active partition and then let it partition the drive...

you trying todo this from windows?
you cant do it that way.. you need to do it from bootup

thanks EL I will try that

:thumbsup

put in the disk when the pc is off.. turn it on.. let it try and boot up
it will bring you to an a: prompt
at that prompt do
fdisk
will look like this
a:\ fdisk
then hit enter

should be self explanitory from there

Download "DiscWizard" at http://support.seagate.com/dwregister . In november/december I installed my new Desktop 80GB Seagate HD and Notebook 30GB IBM HD with it.

Next time you post, try to smoke some weed. Maybe you will settle down enough so that you can take time to punctuate and split up your sentences.. :)

who u talking too? I know ya ain't talking to me ph00!!!!

:Graucho

Jesus christ..
in windows xp you can partition your large hard drives in administator tools..
you really should partition that baby cause it is huge..I have 4 120 gig hard drives with 4 partitions each..I also have a controller card but that's another issue..
you need to fdisk that hard drive, enable large disk support, partition to maybe 30 - 40 gigs then let windows xp partition the rest..and please do not tell me your using ntfs file system..
fat32 is good enough..I'll icq ya, Tom

I finaly got it working :) I didnt know you could partition it in xp via admin and HELL no i wasnt using ntfs it was already on there. Fuck I thought it was a new drive but it had like winNT installed on it so guess they ripped me off at least its working though :)


Tom
Ps my icq wont be on for a while im reinstalling my os onto the new drive

Kids! :1orglaugh

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LOL..if the shoe fits..LOL..
I do have a short fuse when I'm on a diet, don't I..LOL..