250gB Hard Disk Format Question

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Malcolm Dowers - 02 Jun 2004 01:28 GMT

Following on from a previous question regarding FDISK
problems with large hard disks (a problem which was
extremely quickly sorted by a couple of very helpful
chaps), I have run into more similar difficulties.

Although my 2x 250gB hard drives have now been
successfully FDISK'ed as Drives C, D, E and F all at about
120gb each, I then cold rebooted from floppy to start
formatting them, however, the format program only reports
about 53gB each.

I was wondering whether there was a new version of the
FORMAT program to accompany the new version of the FDISK
program I used to resovle the first problem. My current
FORMAT.COM is dated 23/04/1999 22:22:00 with a byte size
of 49575.

Thanks in advance.
Malcolm Dowers

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Bill Blanton - 02 Jun 2004 01:50 GMT

According to this it should be okay.
Format Displays Size of Partitions or Logical Drives Larger Than 64 GB Incorrectly
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;263045

If your chipset is supported, download and install the Intel Application
Accelerator (disk driver), after you get 98 installed. Win98 does not natively
support 48-bit LBA and you may have problems past 8GB of the second
partition. (128GB).

Read all the docs and warnings and check if your chipset is supported
here-
http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/iaa/sb/CS-009299.htm

> Following on from a previous question regarding FDISK
> problems with large hard disks (a problem which was
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> Thanks in advance.
> Malcolm Dowers

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