Partitioning 18gb driv

1, make sure your hard drive is recognized in
CMOS. you should check if your CMOS supports large capacity HD. you should check the HD connection, cable and power

2, when you use Fdisk, type "y" first. Then
you begin to create your patrtitions
you can not create two dos partitions if it
already has a dos partition

If you already have a partition which you want to keep, try 'Partition Magic' to resize and create new partitions.

If you want to start from scratch then delete the existing partition, and create a new partition from scratch. The other problemis that from DOS or the Win98 start-up disk there will be a limit of 2 or 4GB for the partition. So my suggestion would be to get an operating running, then use Windows 98 or NT to create another partition using the free space.

Donot use the maxtor disk,use the Win98 start up disk and CD-Rom and use FDISK at start up,enable large large disk support and the proceed to repartition the hard drive thru fdisk and you will be able to create the dos partition with FAT32 partitions,maxtor is created to save disk space and there fore it does not create the dos partitions.

Boot from the win2000 disk, not a win98 startup floppy. Upon startup, press any key when you see "start from cd". Then follow the prompts until you reach either install os or partition. Select partition, and that is where you'll find out if you create a fat volume or not. I don't think it's the hd vendor. Also, don't create fat partitions over 2gb in size. Win2000 will automatically convert anything over 2gb on a fat volume to fat32. Hope that helps...

You have to delete the hard disk overlay installed by Maxtor utility. Start your PC with the Maxtor disk. Navigate through the menu to find the option to Remove HD Overlay. Then exit out of Maxtor utility and restart your PC with your Win98 startup disk. Run Fdisk and respond with (Y)es to support Large Capacity. Create your partition and make it Active. Restart your PC with Win98 startup disk and format the partition.

Boot your computer and go into the BIOS setup. Take a look at what it shows for the Primary Master (or whatever channel you have the disk on). Make sure it not only gives the correct model # desciption, but, under details, it shows the correct size for the drive.
Next, boot the computer with the Win98 Boot Disk. Run FDISK and select YES for large disk support. After its started, select option 3 to delete. Select delete NON DOS partitions. Delete those. Delete any other partitions you have on it. Then turn around and select 1 to Create Partitions. Create you Primary DOS Partion. Whatever size you want. It will partition larger than 4g. I just did it ten minutes ago. But after that, if you want more partitions, Creat an Extended partition, and logical partitions within that. For the most part, it'll guide you through that.

Use Windows`98 Startup disk or else Partiotion Magic (with it you can do ANY!!!).
Do you need Partiotion Magic? Ask me for.

/Igor

booting from Windows 98 or Windows 2000 CD gives you the option to format and support large capacity disk drives namely FAT32. I had exactly same problem with a slightly smaller Maxtor and it worked fine!
Kamal

If your BIOS doesn't support HDD's over 2 of 8 GB in size then the only thing you can do is either:
A) Buy a newmotherboard.
OR
B) Flash the BIOS. If a new version of your BIOS is available go for it, take the plunge. I've seen this problem about 80 times and I've gotten past it about 75 times by doing the above or reflashing the BIOS.

(E-Mail me if you have any questions at all)

Good luck, tell me what happens.

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