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| 143212 | 2003-05-11 11:30:00 | hi i bought a new seagate bracuda 80 gig hard disk from ETC when i installed winxp pro. in the partition selection menu it showed me the partition of only 76 gb i want to know where is the rest one more thing is that when i use win98 boot disk to go in dos and i type in my drive letter F which my 80 gig hard disk it says its not ready i tried every letter but cant find the 80 gig one why is that |
nirbhayn (480) | ||
| 143213 | 2003-05-11 12:28:00 | Not sure about the WinXP pro question, but when you formatted the drive did you format it as NTFS (not FAT32)? That may be why the Win98 boot disk can't 'see' the drive because it doesn't recognise NTFS format. | Rod J (451) | ||
| 143214 | 2003-05-11 12:33:00 | 76GB is the rounded up value of 80gigs. NTFS can't be read by FAT/FAT32 which is what the 98boot disk would do, fdisk however could pick up an unknown partition. | Kame (312) | ||
| 143215 | 2003-05-11 12:39:00 | > 76GB is the rounded up value of 80gigs. NTFS can't > be read by FAT/FAT32 which is what the 98boot disk > would do, fdisk however could pick up an unknown > partition. ...Non-DOS... |
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| 143216 | 2003-05-11 12:43:00 | <--- shows he hasn't had to use fdisk (other than Linux's one) for ages :P | Kame (312) | ||
| 143217 | 2003-05-12 00:06:00 | HDD makers like to measure a GB as 1000 x 1000 x 1000 bytes where as everyone else measures a GB as 1024 * 1024 * 1024. Resulting in a slightly smaller capacity than advertised. | bmason (508) | ||
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