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Old August 13th 04, 08:06 PM
Aaron
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My old hard drive crapped out, and I bought a new one
today. During fdisk, it says there are no partitions set
up. When I try to setup a primary dos partition it says
there is not enough space. What do I do?
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Old August 14th 04, 12:06 AM
Jeff Richards
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The disk might be partitioned with a partition type that FDISK doesn't
recognise. What information does FDISK provide about the existing
partitionining and the drive size?

You can use WIPE or ZAP at this site to eliminate everything from the drive
so that FDISK will see a blank drive.
http://www.chicorporation.com/support/IBM.html
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"Aaron" wrote in message
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My old hard drive crapped out, and I bought a new one
today. During fdisk, it says there are no partitions set
up. When I try to setup a primary dos partition it says
there is not enough space. What do I do?



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Old August 15th 04, 06:59 PM
Jay
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Also Make sure at the first page of Fdisk, when it asks
you to enable large disk support that you are
hitting "Y". Without it you are limited to 2 GB with the
fat32 file system
-----Original Message-----
The disk might be partitioned with a partition type that

FDISK doesn't
recognise. What information does FDISK provide about

the existing
partitionining and the drive size?

You can use WIPE or ZAP at this site to eliminate

everything from the drive
so that FDISK will see a blank drive.
http://www.chicorporation.com/support/IBM.html
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (DTS)
"Aaron" wrote in

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...
My old hard drive crapped out, and I bought a new one
today. During fdisk, it says there are no partitions

set
up. When I try to setup a primary dos partition it

says
there is not enough space. What do I do?



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