is your bios/cmos able to take a 45 gb hdd if answer = yes then win2000 needs a patch to be able to use the 45 gb hdd but i expected it to be in there after sp3 in win nt 4.0 stephen At 04:35 PM 27/01/2001 Saturday, you wrote: >Now this is a bit strange but I just had a similar problem with a 20 gig WD >hd. (20 gig only showing up as 7.0gig after a windows2000 ntfs format) and >when I went to format it back to fat32 it showed up as 7.0 gig also. I >would change it in the bios only to reboot and have it go right back. (it >detected in the bios as the correct size until I saved and exited [yes I >saved =) ]) I ended up having to use the WD utility to write 0's to the >drive and then auto detect in the bios. I never did get this drive to work >with windows2000. I don't know if it is the same thing here but I used >partition magic to format to ntfs and totally messed the drive when I tried >to format under windows2000! > > > > > [linatic@intrude linatic]$ df > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > /dev/hda5 235M 152M 72M 68% / > > /dev/hda8 8.5G 6.9G 1.2G 86% /home > > /dev/hda6 2.9G 892M 1.9G 32% /usr > > /dev/hda7 6.8G 655M 5.9G 10% /var > > /dev/hdd1 7.7G 20k 7.3G 0% /mnt/backup > > [linatic@intrude linatic]$ > > > > > > > > Any of you guys have any similar experiences? U fdisk a new drive, then >U > > format it ext2 and your 45G drive only shows up ast 7gigs? Any idea >where > > I should look? I followed the Administrator's guide. > > > > which said to just mke2fs -cv /dev/hdd1 > > > > so I need to mess with inodes and block sizes? > > > > > > On the original HD: (has more partitions) > > blocks = 19,687,657 on the 8.5 part /dev/hda2 > > start 51 end 2501 > > > > On the new HD: > > blocks = 8,241,344 on the 7.7 gig part /dev/hdd1 > > start 1 end 16352 > > Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundryphys=(1,254,63) should be > > (1,15,63) > > > > > > I think this is a CHS issue. Any ideas on where I would go... too bad >my > > IBM drives don't have a"How to install in Linux, eh?" > > > >
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