getting 33 gig out of 60?

[dagecko]

I have a 60 gig generic brand 5400rpm hard drive which i just patitioned and formatted and i'm just getting a little over 33 gigs...if someone could help me get closer to 60 gigs, it would be greatly appreciated. Btw i'm using windows me......thanks a lot in advance.

[Bartman]

Does your MoBo support 60Gig bud?
What is your MoBo?

Bartman

[bertieg]

As Bartman said you probably need to flash your bios.

[daveml]

I just did the same an hour ago with a seagate drive.
On their website there is a utility so you can fool your bios into thinking your drive is smaller than it is but it is still recognised by windows as its actual size.
Other hdd drives manufacturers may have similar progs.
look on the label on the drive to find maufacturer.

(Mine was a 40gig drive and the bios only recognised 33gigs.)

[dagecko]

Thanks for all of your time and guidance in helping me solve my problem.....I solved my problem by using DREEMTHEEF's advice of using disk manager 2000 and making a bootable disk (since it's a safer way than flashing my bios for a newbie like me )....my first few attempts didn't bring me much luck but when i went to the the advanced setting and updated disk manager and partitioned/formatted again, the full capacity of my hard drive was recognized. I just want to say thanks to DREEMTHEEF and everybody who tried to help me.

[Bartman]

No problem dagecko, thats what the NET forums are for bud......HELP .


BTW flashing a MoBo Bios is not that hard bud....as long as u do it in a pure DOS environment and back up the old one first....most Flash programs will do all the backing up before the main flash, and follow the instructions


Bartman

[DREEMTHEEF]

Glad 2 B of help dagecko.

....DreeM

[rondo]

It could be the version of fdisk. MS has an update for the fdisk command. D/L the attatched file run it then copy trhe new fdisk file to your boot floppy and see if that helps.

In case the file does not get attatched t this post, the article # in the MS knowledge base is Q260344.

Good Luck

[inndesign]

Rondo - Q260344 relates to "BUG: SQL Server 7.0 Upgrade Might Fail If SQL Server 6.5 Databases Have More than 32,000 Tables" and nothing to FDISK command. If possible please give number as I am also facing this problem.

Regards.

[dagecko]

As you can see, i'm back because i encountered problems dealing with my hard drive which i thought was fixed with disk manager 2000. Well, i thought i got 55 gigs out of my 60 gig hd (it showed that i had 55 gigs) but when i actually tried filling it up and got to a little over 32 gigs it said it was full...when i restarted my comp the hard drive was empty...when i tried to scandisk it, it said that it probably isn't formatted correctly or a disk utility locked it.
Encountering this problem, i was tempted to flash my bios so i went to my motherboard manufacturer (board is k7sem rev 1.0 by ecs elitegroup) and downloaded the utility (awd816a) and the bios update (k7sem11e) and attempted to flash my bios.
As far as flashing the bios was concerned, it went well...but now my other hard drive is detected as empty and not recognized in dos mode and that my processor of amd athlon xp 1700+ (1.4 gigs) is now being recognized by the new bios as only 1.1 gigs...what the? .....I wasn't too concerned with the hard drive but now my processor is now under performing?
If anyone could help before i start losing it... ....I think i've lost it

[bertieg]

To get your processor working properly again you need to go into your bios and configure it.Depending on what make of bios u have u have to change your cpu speed it will probably be set to 100mhz you need to change it to 133mhz.

[Bartman]

Originally posted by bertieg
To get your processor working properly again you need to go into your bios and configure it.Depending on what make of bios u have u have to change your cpu speed it will probably be set to 100mhz you need to change it to 133mhz.

Yep.....when u flash your Bios, its best to go into it....set it to standard settings, reboot and go through it and set it up as u want it........that means the FSB aswell......


Bartman

[dagecko]

Thanks for the help guys.....appreciate it!!

[skunck]

Win98 can handle 32 gigs only on single partition
Over 32 gigs on one partition requires NTFS format


Hope that helps.

[dagecko]

I'm sorry for sounding stupid but, how do you format a hard drive with NTFS?.....I would appreciate it if i was guided throught the process or led to a program that does it. Thanks