Extra Partioning on a Hard Drive

[Bruce D]

I've sorted out the other problems and I now have two formatted Hard drives on the computer.

Both Hard Drives are 30 gig and under the Boot setup and Win98 setup both hard drives can only be partitioned into an extended 8 gig drives.

Is there any way I can add extra partitions to the 30 gig hard drives to allow me to make the use extra space on the hard drive.

I've tried during setup and under fdisk but cannot work it out.

Bruce D

[photolady]

I think this belongs in this forum.......Windows 98. So I moved your post there Bruce. Someone who is more familar with win98's limits can help you.

[Bruce D]

Thanks

[Bruce D]

I should explain that this computer is a pentium with MMX (a old gateway machine) I would like to run it on Windows 98 as it is the last operating system that I can run a Nikon LS20 SCSI slide scanner on.

I have fitted two older 30 gig hard drives into the machine and after some problems have partitioned and formated the two hard drives.

Is there any way I can add extra partitions to the 30 gig hard drives to allow me to make the use extra space on the hard drive.

I've tried during boot setup and under fdisk but cannot work it out.

Bruce D


Under the setup for Win98 and the Boot setup I can only setup a 8 gig partition on each drive, I would like to be able to make better use of the remaining space on each drive.

[photolady]

When you used Fdisk to remove the partitions, did you enable LBA?

[Bruce D]

I didn't see LBA as an option, but I go back and have a look.

Bruce D

[photolady]

When you set up using Fdisk, and remove the partitions, then add a new partition it should ask if you want to use the larger harddrive support by enabling LBA. If you didn't get that message something is wrong. Where did you get the bootdisk from?

[Bruce D]

Its a Win98 boot disk

Bruce D

[Bruce D]

I've checked the fdisk options on my version of win98 and its boot disk, it allows me to set extended Dos Logical drives to a maximium of 8 gig, there is no other options other than that.

Bruce D

[lcsmith39]

Hi Bruce, When you first run fdisk, the very first screen you should see is a screen that ask you if you want to enable support for large hard drives. If you answer yes you should be able to delete all existing partitions a create one new for the full 30gb. Fat32 does have a 37gb limit but your drives are only 30gb so you should be fine.....

[Murf]

Go here:
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

Download the file Windows 98 SE Custom, No Ramdrive . Download the file to your desktop. Double click on it, have a clean floppy disk in. A window will come up and it will extract the boot files to the floppy disk.

Now boot the computer with this floppy and run FDISK. I have a page on this process. HERE

I believe your problem is the boot disk you are using does not recognize a FAT32 partition, probablt FAT12....

[photolady]

I have a page on this process. HERE.

I looked all over your website last night for that Murf.....couldn't find it. I knew it was there. I used it before.....many times. Is it hidden from the first page?

[Murf]

Photolady no not hidden. Index Page it shows:

How To Guides

[photolady]

Well, Murf, it used to say "How to use Fdisk" That's why I couldn't find it, you hid it under a button. LOL