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March 1, 2000 at 8:07 am #2082973
Hard Disk Problem (Need assistance)
Lockedby arod · about 24 years, 1 month ago
I am upgrading my hard drive from a 3 gig to a a 13 gig hard drive.
I am ghost copying my data from the 3gig drive to the 13 gig drive.
The 3 gig drive is partitioned with a C: drive and a D: drive.
I have windows 98, pentium 133 processor, 32 meg Memory.
Why can I only see 4 gigs of the 13 gig hard drive? 2 gigs for drice c:
and 2 gigs for drive d: Is there anything I can
do to use max 13 gig of the new drive?
Do I still need to partition the new drive?
I changed C: and D: toFAT32. No difference. I used the J46 jumper
since these are both Maxtor drives. No difference.
Not quite sure how this FAT 16 works, but that is waht I have on the
3 gig drive.
Will I need to back-up drive, then reformat the new drive?Thanks for assistance.
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March 1, 2000 at 8:15 am #3900483
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by rellerd · about 24 years, 1 month ago
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If you created a Win98 boot disk, copy fdisk.exe onto it from the c:\windows\command directory. Boot from the floppy, and run fdisk. When prompted, enable Large Disk Support by answering ‘Y’, hit ‘1’ to create a new partition, and then create a new logical drive. The only other thing I could think of would be your BIOS doesn’t support LBA. Good luck!
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September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3741042
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March 1, 2000 at 8:15 am #3900482
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by redshift · about 24 years, 1 month ago
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Two things to try, the 1st may work, and will save you some money. The 2nd will certainly work, but will cost you $30 or so, but is quick and easy.
1) Find out the EXACT manufacturer and model of your motherboard, hit that manufacturers website,and download an updated BIOS that supports LBA (required for big drives), then follow that manufacturers instructions to flash the BIOS.
2) Forget your Motherboards IDE connectors and go out and buy a new PCI IDE controller, then install and configure it according to the manufacturers instructions.
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September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3741043
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March 1, 2000 at 9:38 am #3900477
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by rvkillen · about 24 years, 1 month ago
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It seems that fat32 is not enabled. Subsequently, all it can see is 2gb per partition. Also the BIOS probably needs updating. If the Bios doesn’t support LBA, as is, the most you will get out of the drive is 8GB.
Update your BIOS and enable supportfor large drives from FDISK and you should be able to use the rest of your drive.
Unfortunatly, using ghost to do this may not give you the results you desire. You will be coping a “clone” of each partition to the new drive, whereby, FAT32 wll have to be enabled. You may want to check out Partition Magic to reclaim your lost space AFTER you convert to FAT32-
September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3741044
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March 1, 2000 at 9:53 am #3900475
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by bwaggoner · about 24 years, 1 month ago
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You need to upgrade your BIOS like mentioned in the other answers. Your partitions on the drive you want to copy over are FAT16. In order to Ghost that partition over, it will try to create a FAT16 partition on your 13GB drive. Also, if you are not using Ghost 5.1D you will have problems with any drive over 10GB. Ghost 6.0 has the ability to convert a FAT16 partition into a FAT32 during the copy so you won’t have to break up your large drive into multiple partitions. You may have to find another way to copy your old drive over after you upgrade the BIOS.
Good Luck
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September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3741045
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March 1, 2000 at 11:46 am #3900466
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by wmwinkle1 · about 24 years, 1 month ago
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Hi,
There’s a diskette that accompanies the Maxtors 10GB and up called the MaxBlast Plus Diskette. Basically you set CMOS config to AUTO detect your drive then boot with the diskette in and it configs for you. You can get a copy from Maxtor or any shop that handles Maxtor(Compusa etc.) Good luck-
September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3741046
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March 1, 2000 at 12:15 pm #3900465
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by dmiles · about 24 years, 1 month ago
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The Bios needs to be updated from the manufacturer’s site,you can also check out the site drivers.Once you have the update,load the boot disk and cd rom when the screen starts click on shift+F4,at the command promt type fdisk,answer yes to first question and set the size of your partition, you will then be able to reformat.Also look through the tech republic questions in the last two weeks of Feb.and you will find a similar solution.
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September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3741047
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March 1, 2000 at 4:34 pm #3900448
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by desktek · about 24 years, 1 month ago
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The problem is that when you use ghost, you are doing a disk copy or a partition copy this affects the end product on the destination drive. After you use ghost, use partition magic to see the rest of your hard drive. Once you see the rest of the drive you can extend your partition to utilize all the space available on the drive.
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September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3741048
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March 1, 2000 at 11:28 pm #3900430
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by jjll · about 24 years, 1 month ago
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Before you ghost the image to the new hard drive, convert your 3 gig hard drive to Fat32 on both partitions. Then ghost the image over to the new drive and you will see 13 gig on the new image.
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September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3741049
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March 2, 2000 at 1:49 pm #3898608
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by hugodavenport · about 24 years, 1 month ago
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Like others have said, your best option is to buy a upgraded BIOS which supports large disks.
Otherwise, keep the old disk as your C: disk and install the new disk as a slave, D: using the Maxtor Disk Manager to do the partitioning. That way at least you’ll have a BIOS which understands the C: disk on which Win98 is installed, so even if the new disk fails at least you’ll have a working computer-
September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3741050
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March 2, 2000 at 3:54 pm #3898606
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by bobsmon · about 24 years, 1 month ago
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Since you have a pentium 133 I am guessing your machine is a few years old. Your CMOS and/or bios might not be able to handle larger drives. Cechk with your bios maker to see if there is an upgrade.
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September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3741051
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March 3, 2000 at 1:15 am #3898594
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by greg.ahler · about 24 years, 1 month ago
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Having used Norton’s Ghost, I can tell you that the best way to handle this is to start with a fresh disk. Use Fdisk to make a primary partition (active) Make it whatever size you want your new C: drive to be. Format your new C: drive (using a WIN95 boot disk, and FAT32) and drop your C: drive ghost image on that partition. It will work. Ghost doesn’t care what size the destination is.
Then you make the second partition, format that, and drop the second (D:) image on. This works forme all the time.
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September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3741052
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March 3, 2000 at 8:01 am #3898574
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by morgen · about 24 years, 1 month ago
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Two thoughts:
1. Make sure the bios sees the hard disk as 13 gb.
2. There is a limit to the size of partition to and from which ghost will write. On a partition that large, use DRIVE IMAGE. It’s much better.
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September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3741053
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March 4, 2000 at 12:05 am #3898543
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by glefranc · about 24 years, 1 month ago
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First let’s start with some basics:
Fat16 maximum partition size is 2 gigs. That is your first problem.
A ghost partition image will have the original FAT16 format and can
only be restored as such.
To prevent restoring in FAT16, do a drive image instead of a partition
image with ghost. Do this for both C and D partition.
Next, you need to partition the 13 gigs. Make sure you see the 13 gigs
in the BIOS. At worst, you may get only 10 gigs if your BIOS is too old.
In that case you maywant to update your BIOS to get the full capacity.
From there, create 2 partitions on the 13 gigs drive, making sure you
enable large drive support. I would suggest splitting the drive in 2 equal
size partition. Reboot and format both new partitions. They should end
up in FAT32 if you enabled support for large disk in FDISK.
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September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3741054
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March 4, 2000 at 11:26 am #3898528
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by bill · about 24 years, 1 month ago
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It sounds to me like Ghost is creating the partitions. Either way I would not use Ghost. I am not saying that it is good or bad but there is a way from within windows to do what you want to do. First of all you should check in your Bios to make sure that the new drive is being full supported. If not then you will need to get a Bios update or run the Maxblast software. After doing this you should put two partions on your hard drive in fdisk. The reason that you should do this is if you copy the information from both partitions onto one partion your will screw up your programs paths in windows. Anyways boot up off your old drive once the new drive is fdisked and formated. The reason to do this is you want to use xcopy32. Drop to thecommand prompt from windows and type
xcopy c:\*.* /s/e/c/h/k d:xcopy e:\*.* /s/e/c/h/k f:This has to be done from with in windows or it will not work. This will copy the contence exactly as it is. Long file names and everything. If you would like to know what-
September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3741055
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March 4, 2000 at 5:27 pm #3898522
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by lmshatraw · about 24 years, 1 month ago
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Now that the original drive is partitioned as FAT 32, create a FAT 32 boot disk–just format a disk with the system files, then copy the FORMAT, FDISK and SYS to the boot disk after formatting it.
Now, FDISK the 13 GB drive and tell it you want to use ALL the space. It should create a 13 GB E: drive after it’s formatted.
If the motherboard BIOS is too old, the max it will show is 8 GB. You then have three options. [1] Upgrade the motherboard BIOS–either with new BIOS chips if it’s old, or FLASH it with the manufacturers newer version of the BIOS. [2] Use a new IDE controller card that has a BIOS on it to see greater than 8 GB. [3] Use third party software to create the larger size partition. Check the drive manufacturers site for the program to do that.
Now instead of GHOST, use DRIVE COPY to place the contents of C: on the new E: (I presume you want to remove the original drive when you’re done.) If you have any programs on the current D: drive, reload them after moving thenew 13 GB to be MAST
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September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3741056
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March 8, 2000 at 6:38 pm #3898413
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by donhuffman · about 24 years, 1 month ago
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fdisk ,enable large disk support,partion fat32. That ott to do it.
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September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3741057
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March 11, 2000 at 9:26 am #3898301
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by lomwebdesign · about 24 years, 1 month ago
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Have you tried to use a partition expand utility like PartitionMagic from PowerQuest?? If not try that first. You can find it at http://www.powerquest.com
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September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3741058
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May 7, 2000 at 7:21 am #3898630
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by dennis2841 · about 23 years, 11 months ago
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The simplest way to do this is to convert your old drive to fat32 first. Before you make your conversion(backup your important files).You will have to use fat32 as fat16 has a max of 2Gigs
I would fdisk and format the new drive to be sure that you are recognizing the full 13 gigs. I would create just one partition, but do what you prefer, there is a very small space gain by using multiple partitions, but then you have to manage them.
Install your old hard drive as a slave or secondary master and ghost the primary partition to the new drive using the partition to partition selection in ghost instead of disk to disk.
After this is complete, reboot to your new hard disk and then use Explorer to copy the contents of your second partition to wherever you want it(be sure to set your file options to “show all files” or you wont copy some files including dll’s).
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September 20, 2000 at 7:02 pm #3741059
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September 4, 2000 at 2:58 pm #3785448
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by mcneeseg · about 23 years, 7 months ago
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You didn’t say what kind of hard drive it is.
Seagate’s Data Lifeguard tools will copy the data and install EZbios that will get you past the bios barriers and will allow you to set your own partition sizes. I think that you can download it from westerndigital.com, but I’m not sure. Maxtor’s Maxblast is also great. Both will give you more flexibility than Ghost.-
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