From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Mon Nov 15 1999 - 23:52:57 EST
Andrew..
if I sold that drive to you, send it to me and let me test it in my 600
here..
if theres something wrong with it, i'll get you another.. (shipping on
me)
if i did NOT sell you that drive, i'll check it out and, if there is
nothing wrong physically with it, i'll send it back with one big 10gig
partition... (shipping on you)
i know shiping from canada ,ight be a bit costly, so if you want to, get
everything ready and give me a call and i'll walk you through it..
be sure, first, that you have the most recent bios..
if there is nothing critical on the drive, i suggest running fdisk
(delete all partitions and set up one big partition) and then
reformatting it with one huge 10gig, fat32 partition.. use the /s switch
to put a system on the drive.. then reload win9?...
if you try to use the recovery CD, it'll hand you 4 or 5 partitions..
i can see no reason, other than an unusually old bios or a physical
problem with the drive or an incredibly silly mistake (we ALL make
them!<g>) that would keep that drive from delivering the full 10gigs..
you will need a win95B or newer boot diskette with the usual utilities on
it..
note: the full 10gigs (decimal) works out to about 9.34 real gigabytes
(binary or hex or octal)...
Andrew Webber wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Nov 1999 01:01:06 -0500, Bill Morrow wrote:
>
> >1. you do NOT need to upgrade to win98 to get all of a
> >10gig to be seen..
> >2. for fat32, win95B is all that is required..
>
> When I put it in my UltraSlimBay, only 8 gigs were seen. Even with
> Partition Magic v4, only 8 gigs, although I was able to format the
> whole big partition as FAT32, it didn't report any unallocated
> space.
>
> I asked about it on this list, and it seemed like it might be a
> BIOS limitation or some other Win95 restriction (like the 528Mb
> limit on my old 386).
>
> >3. if no fat32 is wanted, then ANY windows should see
> >that 10gig.. but in 5 partitions..
> >4. I have upgraded my 600 several times from the IBM
> >preload to win98 and it goes nicely once i overcame
> >the silliness generated by MS..
> >
> >my two cents is do the recovery then upgrade to win98
> >if you still want to do it.. :-)
>
> I only wanted Win98 because I thought that's what it would take to
> get 10 gig. I'm planning on retaining C: and D: partitions on that
> disk, so it doesn't have to be in one partition.
>
> I'll have to do some sort of re-install anyway, since I'm getting
> an annoying blue screen regularly (but non-fatal, I "press any key"
> and 3 seconds later I'm back where I was).
>
> Thanks for your comments. Any advice on how to see this other 2
> gig?
>
> Thanks!
>
> andrew
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