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Old September 5th 03, 03:37 AM
leegold
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Default new 80gb hard drive - hard drive tech questions

I have a maxtor ATA133 80GB hard drive, I have not attempted to
fdisk/format it yet. I have a slightly old slot 1 pIII motherboard.
I also have installed a maxtor (really is a Promise brand) ATA133 pci
slot card because the motherboard only supports ATA33.
I plan to multiboot a few different OS's.

Ques. If I boot a WIn98/ME boot disk and attempt to
Fdisk/format the drive and say I can format all 80 GB then
would it be correct to assume my bios can "see" the whole drive?
I'm really asking:
I'm looking for the 1st few steps I should take to make sure everything
is OK and there are no limitations.

Ques. Maxtor provides a MAXblast utility - should I use this?

Ques: Is there a way I can easily determine if a partition I format is
at the end of a cylinder or a side? Even though this is not necessary
w/modern drives I'd like to know how I can figure that out?

Thanks


 




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