It's not a hard-drive problem, I don't think... I think it's a FAT-16 problem. I'm not sure you'll get around it.
Question tho... if you're using linux, why in the hell are you formatting with FAT?? Shouldn't you be using EXT or EXT2?? Maybe I read you wrong tho.
No im not using linux on this one. Its like this the hard drive used to be in a linux comp. Now ive took that out and i need to partition it as FAT16 so i didi that with the rootdisks-bootdisks-cfdisk from linux (because with cfdisk there are about 100 possible partitiontypes).
Anyway i partitioned it first as one partition so one partition FAT16 -- 6 gig.
But in dos it only recognized about 472 Mb. So i figured ill partition the hard drive in 5 partitions of 500 Mb that way i can still use about 2.5 gig out of 6.
But that didnt worked because fdisk wasnt able to recognize the partitions made by Cfdisk. So i had to delete all the existing partitions (made with cfdisk) in order to make one with fdisk.
But the problem is that i can only have 1 partition with fdisk-- with cfdisk u can have about 4/5 partitions.
I know this sounds complicated but it isnt, its just me telling it overcomplicated....i guess. But ill try the cfdisk and fdisk again ..(although im getting bored off this thing)
Originally Posted by Salem
I still don't know why you're using FAT16?
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coz i like FAt16
sounds like a lot of hassle because you 'like' something.
Question... why do you have to use fdisk after using Cfdisk? If you're formatting with cfdisk, I don't see a need to do anything else.
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the strangest thing is taht i i format with cfdisk fdisk doesnt recognize the partitions ...wich are all FAT16, and if i make a partition with fdisk it recognizes it as FAT16
