No 'Diskwizard'?

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Nick

I was depending on Seagate's 'Diskwizard' to help in partitioning my first
HDD installation. It appears it's not available for download. Can someone,
please advise how to proceed in partitioning a 80 GB
Seagate drive into two 40 GB partitions.

Thank you.

Nick
 
This is where uTorrent or similar programs can be your friend.
Install the program, then get on a bittorrent site and start looking
for a partition program. Oh, what, you want to pay $$$ for a program
you'll use once or twice??
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Nick said:
Thanks. I sure could use a bit more instruction before running this
program. Will I need to know the number of Kbytes = 40 GB ? How about if
install Windows XP to format and partition the drive, then deleted XP and
installed Win98 SE? I have the license to install '98.
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If it`s an old machine that you want to put 98SE on,
Boot up with a 98 floppy disk and fdisk the drive into
into 2x40.
Explain a bit more.
 
In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt "Nick said:
I was depending on Seagate's 'Diskwizard' to help in partitioning my first
HDD installation. It appears it's not available for download. Can someone,
please advise how to proceed in partitioning a 80 GB
Seagate drive into two 40 GB partitions.

Thank you.

Nick
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Got an boot-disk from Win-98 or older?
Use FDISK.
Works on smaller partitions like under 80gig.
Worthless on things much over 100.
Once partitioned, you can format with anthing, even XP or Vista to FAT
or NTFS formats.

If installing Windows XP, then the system will give you the option of
partitioning however you like when you do the install.
 
If it`s an old machine that you want to put 98SE on,
Boot up with a 98 floppy disk and fdisk the drive into
into 2x40.
Explain a bit more.
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The motherboard is a Biostar M5SAA with an AMD-K6-2 450Mhz CPU from a PC
purchased in 1999. Could you please tell me, how to input 2x40 gigabyte on
the fdisk screen. Thank you.

Nick
 
http://www.fdisk.com/fdisk/

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255867

read these.
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Please pardon me, I hit the wrong button when replying.

Upon typing fdisk at the A: prompt, an error message appears "No fixed disks
present".
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309459 at the microsoft website states the
following:

Error Message When You Run ScanDisk or Fdisk: No Fixed Disks Present

Cause
This behavior can occur because of any of the following hardware issues:
The hard disk is defective or too hot.
The jumper settings on the hard disk are incorrectly configured.
The hard disk data cable is defective or too long.
The hard disk controller is defective or incorrectly configured in the
computer BIOS.
______

The computer case is open it seems unlikely the drive is too hot.
The jumper setting is set to Master.
The cable is a brand new 18" cable with one system board connector and one
connect to the drive.
Maybe the last cause for the error message is that in the STANDARD CMOS
SETUP underTYPE is set to none instead of Auto-Detect:

HARD DISKS TYPE

Primary Master : None
Primary Slave : None
Secondary Master : None
Secondary Slave : None

Do you think that will help? Thank you.
 
Nick said:
Please pardon me, I hit the wrong button when replying.

Upon typing fdisk at the A: prompt, an error message appears "No fixed
disks
present".
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309459 at the microsoft website states the
following:

Error Message When You Run ScanDisk or Fdisk: No Fixed Disks Present

Cause
This behavior can occur because of any of the following hardware issues:
The hard disk is defective or too hot.
The jumper settings on the hard disk are incorrectly configured.
The hard disk data cable is defective or too long.
The hard disk controller is defective or incorrectly configured in the
computer BIOS.
______

The computer case is open it seems unlikely the drive is too hot.
The jumper setting is set to Master.
The cable is a brand new 18" cable with one system board connector and one
connect to the drive.
Maybe the last cause for the error message is that in the STANDARD CMOS
SETUP underTYPE is set to none instead of Auto-Detect:

HARD DISKS TYPE

Primary Master : None
Primary Slave : None
Secondary Master : None
Secondary Slave : None

Do you think that will help? Thank you.
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If your drive is fitted correctly, then in BIOS you
set it to AUTO, that should `find` the drive.(SAVE settings).

Then restart with your floppy disk, and type fdisk.
I will ask you a question, answer Yes.
Then read the screen.

You want to pertition the drive into 2 halves (ie 50%).
 
When fresh installing XP it offers, as part of the setup, the ability to
Partition and then Format. Does this help?
 
If your drive is fitted correctly, then in BIOS you
set it to AUTO, that should `find` the drive.(SAVE settings).

Then restart with your floppy disk, and type fdisk.
I will ask you a question, answer Yes.
Then read the screen.

You want to pertition the drive into 2 halves (ie 50%).
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Meerkat,

May I explain further and ask you for a suggestion. Someone I know has a
Compaq 75Mhz pc that won't even surf the Web without crashing. It is
painfully slow. It has a 1MB Cirrus Logic integrated video with terrible
refresh rate. I previously tried to install a new ATI 8MB video card
without luck. That was months ago. The idea of using a Socket 7
motherboard with an AMD K6-2 450Mhz cpu was decided upon. I ordered a
Antec New Solutions 4400 enclosure (Circuit City) a Seagate 80GB HDD - OEM
(Newegg) a ATI RAGE XL 8MB video card (EBAY), a floppy drive and some
cables. For me, a significant expense. After careful assembly, fdisk
results in "No fixed disk present. The first item purchased, was a Western
Digital 80GB hard drive (Walmart) but not used because my own pc has an 80GB
WD HDD which seems a bit noisy.

Would you suggest, waiting until I can afford an inexpensive motherboard and
RAM (that would take a little time) or open up the WD drive and try it place
of the unrecognized Seagate.

As yet, posts with the subject "No fixed disk present" haven't revealed a
resolution and some posts indicated the HDD wasn't necessarily the reason
for the error. I've checked the connections and setup Auto-Detect in the
BIOS.

What's been disappointing, is the time spent combing the Internet for a
retail Seagate drive with the software and manual. Then deciding that
Diskwizard will be available from Seagate and it isn't. Thanks, for
reading.

Best,

Nick
 
When fresh installing XP it offers, as part of the setup, the ability to
Partition and then Format. Does this help?
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Maybe. Doesn't XP use a different file system? XP came pre-installed on
my system and I wondered if the Socket 7 motherboard will support the XP
file system. Thanks.

Best,

Nick
 
The motherboard is a Biostar M5SAA with an AMD-K6-2 450Mhz CPU from a PC
purchased in 1999. Could you please tell me, how to input 2x40 gigabyte on
the fdisk screen. Thank you.

Nick- Hide quoted text -

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Nick,

I'm guessing your motherboard cannot detect hard drives larger than 32
GB. See if Biostar has an updated BIOS which will allow it to break
the 32 GB limit. If not, you may need to purchase a HD controller
card.

HTH

Bill
 
Nick,

I'm guessing your motherboard cannot detect hard drives larger than 32
GB. See if Biostar has an updated BIOS which will allow it to break
the 32 GB limit. If not, you may need to purchase a HD controller
card.

HTH

Bill
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Hi Bill.,

The BIOS updates at BIOstar for the M5SAA are described with scant
information about them:

-To support ESS Solo1 sound chip which IC version is "ES1938S Kxxx"
-No Biostar Logo BIOS

A drive controller may be the best option. Thank you.

Best,

Nick
 
I was depending on Seagate's 'Diskwizard' to help in partitioning my first
HDD installation. It appears it's not available for download. Can someone,
please advise how to proceed in partitioning a 80 GB
Seagate drive into two 40 GB partitions.

Thank you.

Nick
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Download BootIt NG from
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html.

They have a 30 day trial iirc and it should allow you to repartition
in a nondestructive manner as well. In addition to the partitioning
tools, it allows for multi-booting, imaging functions etc.

I am not associated with them, just a satisfied customer.

I believe you don't have to install it, you just click on the
maintenance button and it takes you to the partitioning functions.
The docs aren't the greatest, but it has some neat features.

HTH
 
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