Hi All,

I have a harddisk of 80GB pre installed with Win98 SE. The hard disk is not partitioned and the entire disk is being used as a whole. I would like to create the partitions for the harddisk of 8GB each. But I heard that the standard FDisk option would not be suitable to format such a huge volume. Is there any other way or tool to format such a huge volume under Win 98 SE.


Thanks
Bob

Partition Magic (http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/system_performance/pm80/index.html).

Hi,

But I would like to know whether it is possible to formart such a huge volume by FDisk. I find "Partition Magic" is too expensive and probably I need it only once. Could you give me any other alternative method.

Thanks
Bob

Yes, you can use fdisk on a 80GB HD, you'll simply get a prompt about 'large drive support':
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q255867/

Of course fdisk is used when the disk has no data. You cannot use fdisk once you have data unless you plan to format.

ThanQ Karma, this is what I'm looking for. Anyway planning to format my disk and install OS freshly

Hi ,

I'm back again with a problem now. Initially I had a HDD with 80GB hardisk with a single partition. I tried to create multiple partitions using FDisk. Complete 80GB was used as Primary partition and so I got to delete the entire primary partition . After deleting all the partitions, when I tried to create partitions, I could create a primary partition of size 8GB and surprisingly I could find only 2GB as remaining available for extended partition. What shall I do to get back my remaining concealed size.

Thanks
Bob:(

Hi Bob,

I apologize, I somehow assumed that you were ipgrading to XP and were using that CD to do fdisk and format. Win98 does have an issue with anything over 64GB. I hope you have access to another internet-connected PC, check here for a fix:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;263044

Or find the updated fdisk here: http://radified.com/Files/ [right-hand side under FDISK floppy]

I'm sorry for the confusion.

Please let me know step by step procedure for Formatting the hard Disk