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  • GT98
    FanBoy
    • Aug 1999
    • 4408
    #1

    Stupid Harddrive problem

    I'm having problems putting in a 8GB hard drive into an older DEC Celebris PC. The BIOS picks up the drive no problem and reports it as the proper size. But if you go into Fdisk, it shows the drive as a 985 MB drive and you can't setup a DOS partition on it at all. Its running DOS 6.22 with Win 3.11. The drive it was replacing was a 6 GB drive that didnt have any problems in DOS. I tried using Maxtors maxblast 3 to set up the drive, but I was running into memory errors with that...since I think it need 16MB RAM and I only have 8 in this PC.

    I can put in a Windows 95 boot disk and I can see the drive and set up partitions on it without a problem, using Fdisk off that boot disk. But once I boot off the main HDD in the PC and take a look at it comes back reporting it as 985MB HDD with out a DOS partition on it.

    Have any suggestions?
    Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?
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    • The PIT
      Super MURCer
      • Aug 1999
      • 11901
      #2
      Odd sounds like pqmagic time to me.
      Remember win95 can only format to 2 gig anyway so thats the max you should get. Try using the old system to format it. Is the bios detecting it as lba or chs just out of interest?
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        • Umfriend
          Crabby Smurf
          • Mar 2001
          • 7308
          #3
          Win 95 had versions that could do more, no?
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            • GT98
              FanBoy
              • Aug 1999
              • 4408
              #4
              ok well I really buggered up...but I degress. I managed to wipe out the main partion on C: since I wasn't paying attention to which drive I was cleaning off in fdisk

              Heres what I did...I set up the C drive (540Mb HHD) and then went to the 8.5GB drive and set it up with 3 partitions of 2GB each and one with 900Mb left over. I did this with using FDISK on the Windows 95 boot disk I downloaded. Then I rebooted using the Windows 95 boot disk and formated all the drives I made up. I rebooted the PC again, this time with a DOS 6.22 disk. It saw the 540MB drive without any problems, BUT I still have the problem with it reporting the drive as 969MB instead of 8GB.

              I think I'm just gonna get another PC tommorow and take the drives out of it and copy them over to take care of this shit
              Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?

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                • a_h
                  MURCer
                  • Jul 2003
                  • 288
                  #5
                  AFAIK dos 6.x (fat16) cannot handle drives of that size - I think you will need Fat32 (=Win95).

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                    • GT98
                      FanBoy
                      • Aug 1999
                      • 4408
                      #6
                      Originally posted by a_h
                      AFAIK dos 6.x (fat16) cannot handle drives of that size - I think you will need Fat32 (=Win95).
                      Windows 95 supports FAT16 till OSR2 which has FAT32 support
                      Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?

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                        • a_h
                          MURCer
                          • Jul 2003
                          • 288
                          #7
                          Umm. ok! You got a problem.

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