Where to find recovery disk that could partition an 80 GB drive?

[Tomas]

Hi all,

Tried to fdisk my Maxtor 80GB hd and got 12.6GB. Did a search and found
that Windows 98/SE has a problem with drives larger than 64GB. MS site has
a patch of some sort to recognize drives greater than 64GB in Windows. (I
can't partition the drive to install Windows so I could install the patch to
partition the drive so I could install Windows...) What I really need is a
complete recovery disk that could handle the large drive.

Any help is appreciated.

 

[WzL]

Hi,

I can easily make partitions to 120GB drive with 98se fdisk. I have never
tried to make one BIG (over 60GB) partition for 98, so i don't really know
does that work, but make for example one 40GB partition and install W9x on
that. After installing and applying all patches you can use fdisk again. I
don't know does this help you, but it might =) Unless you want one big
drive...

 

[Tomas]

Hi,

The problem is I am not given a chance to make multiple partitions. After
fdisk, enable large drive support, it then reports 12.6GB (80-64, apparently
that's a known error). I'm not given the option for smaller partitions from
80GB.

 

[Rod Speed]

The problem is I am not given a chance to make multiple
partitions. After fdisk, enable large drive support, it then
reports 12.6GB (80-64, apparently that's a known error).
I'm not given the option for smaller partitions from 80GB.

The short story is that there isnt any easy way to do that in that situation.

You basically have to either make just one partition for
the whole drive, and just ignore the size reported, or use
something else to partition the drive like Partition Magic etc.

You can however install the fixes fdisk on another system
and then write that to a startup floppy and do it that way.