HD capacity question

[colombo3]

I just installed 2- 80GB hard drives on a RAID 0 array. The RAID setup sees the capacity correctly (says 152638MB), as I understand that 80GB is a rough estimate. My question is, how come when I go to Fdisk to start partitioning, it says disk capacity is 2156.15M?

[repo man11]

As I understand it, FDISK can't handle that kind of disk capacity. If you're going to install 98, I think you can get an updated version of FDISK from the Microsoft download center.
If you're going to install 2000 or XP, I'd format from the install cd.

[colombo3]

Sorry, should've specified. I am doing a Win98SE install first (XP and Linux to follow), and I have the newer version of Fdisk. That's why I'm confused. It worked correctly the last time I used it (had to redo because a HD went bad and needed to replace it).

[repo man11]

Drat, I really thought I had the answer there! Uuhhh? Did you get your floppies mixed up? Anyone else have any ideas?

[colombo3]

Hmm.. This is odd. I ran format just rto see what it would do with the whole drive. When it's done it shows drive size as 152,595.88 MB. So I guess I'll just redo fdisk and do my partitions as percentages of disk size and keep my fingers crossed.

[MrRuckus[RC]]

It sounds like your not choosing to 'enable large disk support' which is basically enabling FAT32. FAT16 will not format higher then a 2.1GB partition, and thats what it sounds like it's making. If when you first start Fdisk you dont have the option to 'enable large disk support' then the version of Fdisk you have will only support FAT16 which means 30 or so 2.1gig partitions for you. On my 240gig RAID I installed with the WindowsXP CD and made one 240GB partition in NTFS. Worked great. :)

Edit: My bad. Form your last post it looks like it did work. :) you should be fine.

[colombo3]

Yup..seemed to work fine. I was able to make one primary partition that win98 is on. Will make other partitions with Partition Magic. Thanks for everyone's suggestions!