Re: How to handle 32 GB+ drives on a Win98 system
- From: "Ben Voigt" <rbv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:01:36 -0600
"Grzegorz Wróbel" </dev/null@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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R.Wieser wrote:
Hello All,
I've got an older Win98 system here, and had to replace a drive. As
things turned out, I got a drive with a capacity (40 GB) that poses a
problem to Win98 : its FDISK just tells me that the size is exactly Zero
bytes.
By some tinkering around I got it to admit that it actually had a drive
of
40 GB, but now I'm a bit afraid to use the drive : I have no idea if it
actually can access the (full) drive correctly, and won't just, some time
in
the future, at a most murphy-an moment trash important data.
So, I searched the Web for an updated driver or any other way to be able
to
securily use the drive. Alas, all solutions told me that I had to use
third-party FDISK programs, and that Windows would be limited to using
the
first 32 GB only.
As a result I'm posting this message, in which I (here it comes) want to
ask
if someone maybe has an idea to how I can get Windows to allow me to use
the
whole drive (an updated/special driver ? Other methods ? A (minimal)
file-server solution perhaps ?), and/or what to look out for (so I can
use
the drive without worrying about loosing my data).
As far as I remember fdisk had problem only with correct displaying the
size of partition during formatting. After formatting DOS and Windows
reported size correctly. I did it with 120GB hardrive setting 1 120GB
FAT32 partition. So if your BIOS supports this drive no reason to worry.
Easiest solution -- boot a linux livecd, run fdisk, disk-druid, or your
favorite other partitioning software that gets the partition table right,
then reboot and use from windows.
--
Grzegorz Wróbel
http://www.4neurons.com/
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