Fat32 on 120 gb HD

[BryanM]

i have an Samsung 120 gb hd and i wanna put fat 32 on it, and when i try and partition it, it doesnt partition the complete drive, how do i do it so it formats the complete drive

[Midknyte]

what os are you running?

[BryanM]

putting on win 98 then upgrade to xp pro

[Midknyte]

so you're running fdisk to partition and format the drive? did you try using the disk utility that came with the drive? what kind of hdd is it?

[Midknyte]

read this too:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q263044

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Might have to partition it from Fdisk, if thats not what your alreadt doing. XP's built in setup partitioner wont 'do' fat32 above 32gb and thats the work around.

--Jakk:t

[BryanM]

it only partitions it 12 gb from fdisk

[Midknyte]

you still didn't say what brand of hdd. go to the manufacturer's website and download the hdd setup utility.

did you read the link I posted?

[BryanM]

smasung, it was posted on top i tihnk

[Midknyte]

frick. my bad, dude.

anyways, did you try the samsung hdd utility?
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/index.htm

[BryanM]

got it, havn't tried it yet cause i havn't had a chance to format yet. will update you

[Sterling_Aug]

Boot up to the WinXP CD and FDISK and format from there.

[Midknyte]

winxp won't let him do fat32 for larger than 32gb partitions.

[rmanet]

any chance your mobo is having problems with that large a drive?

[BipolarBill]

12GB is an odd number. I would update the motherboard BIOS before I did anything else.

[sm8000]

Also, you need the updated fdisk to make partitions larger than 64GB.

[AllGamer]

not necessary

i used a Win98 bootdisk's FDISK

and it automatically made my 160 Gig FAT32 partition without a problem

then i went into Win2k/xp to format it

now if you did the FORMAT in DOS

then it's a funny thing, if you are lucky, you get the whole thing 160 gig (after like 2 days of wait), but if not, you only get like 64 gig after several hours

:t