80GB only showing 10gb in FDISK HELP

[GJGJR12]

I am now putting my computer together and everything is in place, i tried to go into fdisk to set up my partitions setup and it only recognizes the 80gb drive as 10gb. i have large drive support on and there is only one HD.

anyone know what the problem is?

[Swordfish]

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;263044

[GJGJR12]

i don't understand what i am supposedto do if the computer has no windows on it

[Bigjakkstaffa]

What drive model / make is it?

Is it jumpered correctly?

--Jakk

[tranka32]

did you set up that 10 gb partition or is it just what your system is autodetecting???? Try to set up an extended dos partition... and see if it will let you... other wise you can look at your bios I can't remember your specs but you may need to enable LBA.... Anyway Good luck....See what the autodetect in bios is offering up for your HDD size...

[sm8000]

fdisk only recognizes up to 64GB. Over that, it'll tell you less (usually the difference between 64 and whatever yours is). Go to google.com and search for updated fdisk.

http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q263044

[omega31]

The link Swordfish and sm8000 gave tells of the fix you can get. It's toward the bottom of that page. The fix (new fdisk) is purely cosmetic, since there is nothing wrong with setting it up a 10gb partition when it will really be a 80gb partition. You are setting up the partition to fill the entire disk, so it will take 80gb instead of the 10gb it shows. Now if you want to make more than one partition, then get the fix. The fix will show the correct size.

[SPEEDO]

What OS are you planning to install?

[SPEEDO]

[Peter M]

Folks, stop guessing. That's a long standing and well known bug in W98 FDISK. The program overflows the capacity display at 64 GBytes (65536 MBytes), truncating an "80GB" (75 in reality) drive to 10.

Download the fix from MS and get on with it.

[GJGJR12]

Ya but what do u do with that fix? do u put it on a CD, or a floppy? i don't understand that one!

[tranka32]

I've never used it but my guess would be to save it to a formatted floppy,, bring up the dir then the executable... good luck... You learn something new everyday,,, I now have that fix.. Thanks...

[GJGJR12]

hmmm, makes sense, i'll give it a try