48gb HD limit

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Wayne Scott

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

andy
 
Andy Lee said:
Yes several easiest is to instal a seperate IDE controller from
Promise or Sig or similar and install the drive on the controller
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Yup.
Fdisk of course will still do the modulo 64GB thingy but at
least you will have had the pleasure of throwing away money.
 
I just bought a 120gb hard drive for my pc but it limits the size to 48gb when
i fdisk it.
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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.
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Is there anyway to use the full space of the drive?
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Yep, lots of ways.
 
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