a question for you techies: partitioning a hard drive

[scylis]

ok, so i've just gotten my hands on this 40 gig hard drive, but i've heard that Win98 will only recognise the first 20 gigs. therefore my thoughts turn to partitioning it. now, i've never done any partitioning before. is there any hints or pointers or programs that will make it a lot easier? do i even need to partition it at all?

 

[bigrednz]

ok, so i've just gotten my hands on this 40 gig hard drive, but i've heard that Win98 will only recognise the first 20 gigs. therefore my thoughts turn to partitioning it. now, i've never done any partitioning before. is there any hints or pointers or programs that will make it a lot easier? do i even need to partition it at all?

I'm using win98 with a 40gig hard drive and it works fine.

 

[freakygirl]

Re: Re: a question for you techies: partitioning a hard drive

I'm using win98 with a 40gig hard drive and it works fine.

I use Windows 98se and have a 40 gig hard drive.. it works fine for me..

 

[Starblayde]

its when you have multiple hard drives

I got an 8gig c: drive and a 40gig d: drive...

so win 98 thinks i have an 8gig drive and a 32gig drive (for some odd reason)

 

[scylis]

Re: its when you have multiple hard drives

I got an 8gig c: drive and a 40gig d: drive...

so win 98 thinks i have an 8gig drive and a 32gig drive (for some odd reason)

fucking Windblows. must be a randomized bug; affecting some but not others.

 

[Guest]

While we're at it...

 

[Starblayde]

could be that the file size is too big to send from your email or too big for hotmail to receive

depends on what error message you are getting aswell

 

[Guest]

 

[Starblayde]

I give up.

Well I'm out of ideas

Today is not a good day.

my day has only been around for 3hours and 46 minutes (as its 3:46am)... maybe i should get to bed, i have a meeting in the afternoon

 

[scrymettet]

Re: While we're at it...

I've got a question, too.

Why can I not send an avi file from my home email to a hotmail address? Does my zone alarm have anything do to with it? Or do I have to change the file extension to an mpg format or similar?

I tried with .html files to hotmail. Sometimes it works, sometimes no. It looks like a Hotmail problem to me. Must be run on Windows.
Try again it might work.

 

[Weird Harold]

ok, so i've just gotten my hands on this 40 gig hard drive, but i've heard that Win98 will only recognise the first 20 gigs. therefore my thoughts turn to partitioning it. now, i've never done any partitioning before. is there any hints or pointers or programs that will make it a lot easier? do i even need to partition it at all?

You will need to format it with FAT32 to use it as a single 40 Gig drive. The way it is confgured in BIOS setup when you install it will also affect the capacity Windows 98 can use.

FAT16 drives are limited to 20.2 Gb.

If you would prefer to have it partitioned, which is useful for keeping files and program organized, you need to use FDISK before you format the drive. (Start/Run FDISK.EXE)

FDISK is basically self explanatory. If the drive is a secondary drive, you want the entire drive as a "extended partition" and set the "Logical Drives" to the size(s) you want.

 

[Draco]

Partitioning....

For those that get scared by using a DOS programme to partition the drive, I suggest PowerQuests Partition Magic Or P M Pro. Only problem is you have to buy a serial number for it. It only lets you do a "dummy run" in shareware mode.(I E : You cant actually apply the changes). BUT~ Salvation is at hand. Download and go find a crackz/serialz site and see if you can find a serial number or file crack. If you cant, PM me for further info:

A WARNING FROM MANAGEMENT: Be bloody careful and follow all the steps to the letter, read all the help files etc first: Making a 'fuck-up' while partitioning your drive will render it in-operable and if you persist and use FDISK, it will nuke ALL the info already on the drive. If your drive has data on it, use Partition Magic instead, it will do all you want while ensuring data integrity.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED:

Draco

 

[scylis]

ok, so i slapped that sucker in and got it working, but it only registers 38.4 gigs rather than the full 40. hey, i can live with that, though!

 

[Unclebill]

Your BIOS determines the usable space on the disk. Depending on the BIOS age, it will recognize all or part of the drive. A very old BIOS may not even recognize the presence of the drive.

I had that happen last year to a friend. He bought a 40 GB HDD to replace a much smaller one.

The main board required a BIOS update before it would even detect the drive (and this board had a CNR connector). Even then, because of the updated BIOS limitation, it would only permit access to 36 GB of the drive's space.

Good luck.

Originally posted by scylis
ok, so i slapped that sucker in and got it working, but it only registers 38.4 gigs rather than the full 40. hey, i can live with that, though!

This may be due to math. Drive manufacturers typically give their drive capacity in megabytes/gigabytes where a megabyte=1,000,000 bytes and a gigabyte=1,000,000,000 bytes. But DOS/Windows computes a megabyte as 1,024 x 1,024 or 1,048,576 bytes and a gigabyte as 1,024 x 1,024 x 1,024 or 1,073,741,824 bytes.

So if the manufacturer says the drive has 40,000,000,000 bytes, the OS computes it as 37.25 GB or 38,146.97 MB.