partitioning hd help

[ashley]

i have a new maxtor 10.2gb hd that i put into a new computer with a abit bx6 rev.2 motherboard. when i turn the computer on the bios will correctly auto-detect the drive(proper size and type)but when i go to partition the drive useing a windows 98 start up disk the largest partition i can make is 9758mb. this is the total amount of disk space that is recognized.i will detail the steps i used to do this in hopes someone can tell me what i'm doing wrong.
1.after correct bios setup i insert windows 98 startup disk into floppy and reboot
2.computer boots to 3 options 1-start windows w/cd-rom 2-w/o cdrom 3-help file
3.usually i'll start with cdrom support,after computer boots it goes to a:\ prompt
4.from a:\ prompt will run fdisk
5.fdisk begins to run, computer ask me if i want to run large disk capacity y or n, i have done this both ways but i get the same results.
6.i then select to partition the drive the program runs a little then asks me if i want this partition to be the largest it can be(maximum) and if i want it to be active. i select yes. this is were it tells me the total disk capacity is 9758mb. i'm missing a half a gig.
7.i partition this amount of the drive then format it then load my windows 98 on.
8.once i win98 i look for the size of my hd and its 9.5 gigs.
i can't create any extended drives b/c there is no more hd space what am i doing wrong? thank-you in advance

[MR COMPUTER]

I have a Maxtor on an Abit board. I used the Maxblast utility that came with the drive to set it up. Sometimes the bios and/or the operating system will not recognise the disk size correctly. This is where the hard drive utility helps.. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[kwai]

that 9757mb is pretty much what the drive is. there should be a faq on this board for this issue, but it comes down to a few points:

-untruth in advertising from the hd manufacturers (1mb = 1000kbytes instead of 1024kb)
-"overhead" for preparing and formatting the disk
-rounding errors.

if you're seeing over 8gb, i'm pretty sure your bios is recognizing it correctly.

[JROBERTS]

Kwai is right. My 12.7G fireball EX was just under 12G when formatted.

[krusty]

I have a Quantum 13G that actually comes at at about 12.3 or 12.4 G

[Stan]

Yep, like Kwai said: it depends how the manufacturer "sees" a megabyte:
- in binary: 1Mb = 2^20 = 1048576 bytes
- in decimal: 1Mb = 10^6 = 1000000 bytes

So, as you can see, there is 48576 bytes difference...

Stan