You said you used the software that came with the drive, will your
motherboard not support a drive this large? If it will, use the software to
delete all partitions and interpretation layers and just use fdisk alone.
If it doesn't support the drive, you probably will have to have the utility
partition(fdisk it) and format it (a guess not knowing what software you're
using).
Another suggestion if your board won't take a drive that large would be to
buy a new udma 100 controller which will (definately) handle a 60G drive.
My guess is that it will also give you a very noticeable speed boost as a
mobo that can't handle a 60G drive with the latest bios update probably only
provides udma 33 which will greatly impair the performance of your new hdd.
Hope this helps.
Stephen Todd
----- Original Message -----
From: "muygur"
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:48 AM
Subject: PCWorks: Large Capacity HD
> I have bought a 60 GB HD recently. When I used the software that came with
the
> disk it partitioned into 30- 2 GB size partitions. This is not What I
wanted.
> I tried to reduce these to as few as 1-2-3 partitions through dos (fdisk)
or
> WinME, Ididn't succeed exactly, I have created one DOS partition of 2 GB
and a
> logical partition of 56GB size but I cannot access this 56GB.
> Anybody had experience with this? Thanks.
> M.E.Uygur
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