Confused by various recognitions of hard drive capacity

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andy@bradfordsutty.freeserve.co.uk - 30 Jul 2004 00:45 GMT

I have replaced the existing 8.4GB hard drive for an old
Tiny PC with an Excelstor 80GB drive.

I have obtained an excellent replacement BIOS which has
detected the 80GB hard drive in its entirety.

However, from scratch, fdisk only recognised the HD as
approx 14GB and would not permit any additional
partitions but when formatted it created a primary
partition at approx 32GB from which I could install
Windows 98SE.

I have been advised to download a fdisk update from
Microsoft as there was apparently a problem with fdisk
recognisng drives of 64GB or above.

I was about to do this but according to Windows 98 by
right clicking the C: drive there is approx 80GB free.

Who should I believe?

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Jeff Richards - 30 Jul 2004 00:55 GMT

If you have formatted an 80Gb disk with the original FDISk then you can't
believe anything you're seeing about that disk (although the 14Gb figure is
probably correct). Download the newest version of FDISK as advised, and
start over.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=263044
Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Hard Disks Larger than 64 GB

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>I have replaced the existing 8.4GB hard drive for an old
> Tiny PC with an Excelstor 80GB drive.
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> Who should I believe?

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