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| Thread ID: 32478 | 2003-04-19 23:02:00 | Stumped, FDISK only does 50% of HDD? | Scotty D (491) | Press F1 |
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| 137059 | 2003-04-19 23:02:00 | I have recently acquired some older desktops with 4gb Maxtor HDD, I use fdisk to display - 'no partitions defined', I then Create and set active the maximum size of drive, it does it too quick without the verifying count up to 100%? Then when I restart and go back to fdisk to display - only 50% of drive in use, this has done it on more than one machine with same hardware. I can't believe that it has exactly 50% of bad disk? Is it likely to be bad disks? Any ideas appreciated. Oh I am now thinking possibly NTFS? That would effect fdisk? |
Scotty D (491) | ||
| 137060 | 2003-04-19 23:14:00 | What version of FDisk are you using? FDisk from Win95 or earlier won't detect large disk sizes (larger than 2gb ;)), so 50% would be about right. Mike. |
Mike (15) | ||
| 137061 | 2003-04-20 00:37:00 | Thank you, that's probably it, the simple one. Cheers |
Scotty D (491) | ||
| 137062 | 2003-04-20 01:04:00 | use FAT32 File system or "Large Hard-Drive" Partitions or if your system doesn't support FAT32 make two or more partitions. | Dylan (800) | ||
| 137063 | 2003-04-20 01:36:00 | Yep, I was using a dos 6.2 download, so I managed to create thru someone else win98 and it has lasrge disk support, thanks for your help. 1 more fixed. | Scotty D (491) | ||
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