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how for fdisk/format 160 GB disk with FAT32
Does anyone know how to fdisk and format a large disk
(160 GB) with FAT32 ? Win98SE Fdisk thinks that my 160 GB drive is 8 GB ! Microsoft's knowledge base says that fdisk only works up to 137 GB too. The BIOS on my PC does recognize that the disk is 160 GB though ! I did look at http://www.fdisk.com/fdisk/ but I did not see anything for 48 bit LBA disks. Thanks, Lynn McGuire |
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Fdisk cannot tell whether the disk uses 28/32/48 bits, it probably uses 32
bits. You are seeing the fdisk bug that reports sizes modulo 64GB. Microsoft DOS format/scandisk only supports up to 137GB for FAT32, and I don't know of any free alternatives that go higher. "Lynn McGuire" wrote in message .. . Does anyone know how to fdisk and format a large disk (160 GB) with FAT32 ? Win98SE Fdisk thinks that my 160 GB drive is 8 GB ! Microsoft's knowledge base says that fdisk only works up to 137 GB too. The BIOS on my PC does recognize that the disk is 160 GB though ! I did look at http://www.fdisk.com/fdisk/ but I did not see anything for 48 bit LBA disks. |
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Lynn McGuire wrote:
Does anyone know how to fdisk and format a large disk (160 GB) with FAT32 ? Win98SE Fdisk thinks that my 160 GB drive is 8 GB ! Microsoft's knowledge base says that fdisk only works up to 137 GB too. I believe that if you make it as one partition using 100% of the space, it'll use the whole drive. (despite the fact that it only reports 8GB) Or you could use a 3rd party app like Partition Magic, or a linux boot disk. -WD |
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Lynn McGuire wrote in message .. . Does anyone know how to fdisk and format a large disk (160 GB) with FAT32 ? If its just one partition for the entire drive, just do it with fdisk and tell it to use the entire drive. Win98SE Fdisk thinks that my 160 GB drive is 8 GB ! Microsoft's knowledge base says that fdisk only works up to 137 GB too. Thats a bit overstated if you are happy with a single partition per drive. The BIOS on my PC does recognize that the disk is 160 GB though ! I did look at http://www.fdisk.com/fdisk/ but I did not see anything for 48 bit LBA disks. |
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"8GB" makes me think you are trying to use FAT16, not FAT32.
When you go in to FDISK, do you select "Y" (for FAT32) when asked if you want to Format/Partition for large harddrives . selecting "N" will only set up partitions for FAT16. Could there already be a partition(s) on the harddrive, maybe you need to delete them first. Who ever manufactured your harddrive, go to their website, see if they have any tools for Formatting/Partition. "Lynn McGuire" wrote in message .. . Does anyone know how to fdisk and format a large disk (160 GB) with FAT32 ? Win98SE Fdisk thinks that my 160 GB drive is 8 GB ! Microsoft's knowledge base says that fdisk only works up to 137 GB too. The BIOS on my PC does recognize that the disk is 160 GB though ! I did look at http://www.fdisk.com/fdisk/ but I did not see anything for 48 bit LBA disks. Thanks, Lynn McGuire |
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Fdisk cannot tell whether the disk uses 28/32/48 bits, it probably uses 32
bits. You are seeing the fdisk bug that reports sizes modulo 64GB. Microsoft DOS format/scandisk only supports up to 137GB for FAT32, and I don't know of any free alternatives that go higher. I wonder how my 200 GB WD external USB2 hard drive got formatted to 195 GB using FAT32 ? The type of the file system is FAT32. Volume WDC Combo created 9/5/2002 2:16 PM Volume Serial Number is 15DA-1E0F Windows is verifying files and folders... File and folder verification is complete. Windows has checked the file system and found no problems. 195,310,688 KB total disk space. 1,316,096 KB in 2,214 hidden files. 1,677,792 KB in 51,969 folders. 155,279,040 KB in 1,528,833 files. 37,037,728 KB are available. 32,768 bytes in each allocation unit. 6,103,459 total allocation units on disk. 1,157,429 allocation units available on disk. Thanks, Lynn |
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Troll. That is chkdsk, not DOS scandisk.
Now if you would tell us what you used to format... "Lynn McGuire" wrote in message .. . Microsoft DOS format/scandisk only supports up to 137GB for FAT32, and I don't know of any free alternatives that go higher. I wonder how my 200 GB WD external USB2 hard drive got formatted to 195 GB using FAT32 ? The type of the file system is FAT32. Volume WDC Combo created 9/5/2002 2:16 PM Volume Serial Number is 15DA-1E0F Windows is verifying files and folders... File and folder verification is complete. Windows has checked the file system and found no problems. 195,310,688 KB total disk space. 1,316,096 KB in 2,214 hidden files. 1,677,792 KB in 51,969 folders. 155,279,040 KB in 1,528,833 files. 37,037,728 KB are available. 32,768 bytes in each allocation unit. 6,103,459 total allocation units on disk. 1,157,429 allocation units available on disk. |
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That is chkdsk, not DOS scandisk.
Yes, that is Windows XP chkdsk. I dual boot Windows XP and DOS 7 on my PC. Now if you would tell us what you used to format... Sorry, but I did not format the USB external drive. It came from WD that way. I tried to format my new drive with Windows XP but it will only create a NTFS partition on the new 160 GB drive. Thanks, Lynn |
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"8GB" makes me think you are trying to use FAT16, not FAT32.
When you go in to FDISK, do you select "Y" (for FAT32) when asked if you want to Format/Partition for large harddrives . selecting "N" will only set up partitions for FAT16. I am selecting Y. Could there already be a partition(s) on the harddrive, maybe you need to delete them first. Nope. Who ever manufactured your harddrive, go to their website, see if they have any tools for Formatting/Partition. Samsung. Their format tool does not work on drives over 137 GB yet, see http://www.samsung.com/Products/Hard...ties/index.htm Thanks, Lynn |
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Find nothing unusual here. Check wdc.com for more specific answers.
Dave "Lynn McGuire" wrote in message .. . Does anyone know how to fdisk and format a large disk (160 GB) with FAT32 ? Win98SE Fdisk thinks that my 160 GB drive is 8 GB ! Microsoft's knowledge base says that fdisk only works up to 137 GB too. The BIOS on my PC does recognize that the disk is 160 GB though ! I did look at http://www.fdisk.com/fdisk/ but I did not see anything for 48 bit LBA disks. Thanks, Lynn McGuire |
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