How do you partition HDD to be bigger?

[Guest]

Hi, everyone.

I've recently built a new computer and moved my old 4.3GB SeaGate HDD from my 80486 to my Duron system. Problem is, I don't know how to partition my harddisk so I can have drives of 3GB or bigger. I used FDISK from my DOS floppy disk, but it partitions up to 2GB only. Therefore, when I'm planning to buy a new 20GB HDD, I wonder how we could partition a drive to be bigger than 3GB. All replies welcome.

 

[Guest]

Try powerquest partition magic.

 

[Guest]

What is the disk you are using, Is it Win98, If its dos, win 3.1 or win95a then it will not support lba, I suggest you get a Win98 boot disk and partition and format from that, and when it asks if you want to use LBA (Large Block Allocation) Yes you do

 

[Guest]

If the version of FDisk you are you on the floppy does not support LARGE disks, than copy the version from the Windows directory to the floppy, just do a search for FDISK.EXE. Yo will know it the version you have supports LARGE disks because when you start it up it will ask you "Do you wish to enable large disk support?" Your version will have to have this to support FAT32, or to you, partitions over 2048mb which it FAT16. The first version of Win95 was the last Microsoft OS to use FAT16 only, FAT32 has been the standard since. Once you say "Y", for yes, to FDISK about large disk you should be able to create one large partition if you want, or two partitions, etc... of any size you deem needed on your 20Gb drive.

 

[Guest]

woo .. Let's not confuse a file system such as FAT with a physical hard disk addressing such as LBA. They are not the same. DOS 6.22 (NT 3.5) and earlier does not have support for int13h extensions (or LBA). Windows 95a certainly does. Even so, it is not a 2G limitation for a hard disk. It is an 8G limit. The FAT16 limit would not stop you from making 5 2G partitions on a 10G disc in DOS 6.22, but the lack of LBA support would.

The answer is in using FAT32 as mentioned..you still could use FAT16 for the smaller 2G partitions, but it wouldn't be very efficient with today's larger drives. So investment in a new OS may be in order.



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[Crashman]

If your using 98 you can boot form the CD-ROM and find Fdisk under the win98 directory I believe. This version goes to Fat32 automatically.

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