48gb HD limit

Fdisk is broken, showing 120-64MB. Use freedos fdisk, or Win XP setup.

"Wayne Scott" <waynescott.TakeThisOut@orcon.net.nz> wrote in message
news:hTLGd.8635$mo2.645273@news.xtra.co.nz...
 > Hi all,....I just bought a 120gb hard drive for my pc but it limits the size
 > to 48gb when i fdisk it.
 > Its an older machine, celeron 500, BX master mother board, dated back to nov
 > 1999.
 > Is there anyway to use the full space of the drive?<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: 48gb HD limit 

Ah, an expert.

"Tod" <no_spam_me.RemoveThis@comcast.net> wrote in message news:TL6dnYf1PvtCdXbcRVn-2w@comcast.com
 > Your motherboard is just too old to work with a 120GB hard drive.
 > You can get an add on PCI controller card for $16,
 > this controller works fine with my 200GB drive.
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 >
 > Wayne Scott wrote:
  > > Hi all,....I just bought a 120gb hard drive for my pc but it limits the size
  > > to 48gb when i fdisk it.
  > > Its an older machine, celeron 500, BX master mother board, dated back to nov
  > > 1999.
  > > Is there anyway to use the full space of the drive?
  > >
  > > Cheers<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
 >> Stay informed about: 48gb HD limit 

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:50:04 +1300, "Wayne Scott"
<waynescott DeleteThis @orcon.net.nz> wrote:

 >Hi all,....I just bought a 120gb hard drive for my pc but it limits the size
 >to 48gb when i fdisk it.
 >Its an older machine, celeron 500, BX master mother board, dated back to nov
 >1999.
 >Is there anyway to use the full space of the drive?
 >
 >Cheers
 >


Yes several easiest is to instal a seperate IDE controller from
Promise or Sig or similar and install the drive on the controller

andy<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Wayne Scott <waynescott.RemoveThis@orcon.net.nz> wrote in
message news:hTLGd.8635$mo2.645273@news.xtra.co.nz...

 > I just bought a 120gb hard drive for my pc but it limits the size to 48gb when
 > i fdisk it.

Thats just fdisk having a brain fart and
reporting the size as <drive size> - 64GB

Entirely cosmetic if you just want
one partition for the entire drive.

If you want more than one, you can get the
latest fdisk from the MS site and that will fix it.

If you are running XP, you can partition it in Disk Management in XP.

 > Its an older machine, celeron 500, BX master mother board, dated back to nov
 > 1999.

 > Is there anyway to use the full space of the drive?

Yep, lots of ways.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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"Andy Lee" <andy.lee.TakeThisOut@siemens.com> wrote in message news:tmbqu01f286pch5ht0hpnm13di0s75qvv3@4ax.com
 > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:50:04 +1300, "Wayne Scott"> <waynescott.TakeThisOut@orcon.net.nz> wrote:
 >
  > > Hi all,....I just bought a 120gb hard drive for my pc but it limits the size
  > > to 48gb when i fdisk it.
  > > Its an older machine, celeron 500, BX master mother board, dated back
  > > to nov 1999.
  > > Is there anyway to use the full space of the drive?
  > >
  > > Cheers
  > >
 >
 >
 > Yes several easiest is to instal a seperate IDE controller from
 > Promise or Sig or similar and install the drive on the controller

Yup.
Fdisk of course will still do the modulo 64GB thingy but at
least you will have had the pleasure of throwing away money.

 >
 > andy<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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