80GB HDD not showing 80GB!

[robinmitra1]

I have bought a 80GB samsung 7200rpm HDD and after installing it the fdisk program recognises as approximately 10GB. I have tried to set the jumper so that it shows 32GB but doesnot show 80GB at all. I have Athlon XP 1700+, Asus A7N266VM motherboard, 384MB RAM, Windows 98SE.

Robin

[Bovon]

The BIOS must first detect the hard drive at its true value.

Can you go into setup (BIOS) and see if it will autodetect the drive?

[mlee97]

you need to get the updated fdisk program from microsoft.

See-

http://support.microsoft.com/default...NoWebContent=1

[kranich]

Could also be that your BIOS does not recognize that size disk. You may have to upgrade the BIOS.

[TOAD6147]

If your BIOS is up-to-date and your hdd jumpers are set right it might be the OS. What OS are you using? I believe the fdisk.exe in Win98 will not show the entire size but it will still be accesible in the OS. Not sure. Or you may just be running fdisk wrong.