Quote Originally Posted by harken
.... On an WIn 98 floppy boot disk I have fdisk but it reports a wrong size of my HD (120GB). It says it's only around 50 GB. I searched the MS site and found out that fdisk won't work with HDs bigger than 64GB but there's a patched version of fdisk that can do that....
Actually, many versions of Fdisk will partition drives larger than 64 gig, but they lie to the user about how big the drives (and partitions) are! They can be used if you just don't believe the reported sizes (which is how I formatted my first large drives). And, you'll find that the version you have from Win98 just isn't gonna make NTFS partitions (if you want them). There are different tools in XP, but it's a real pain for those of us who learned the ins and outs of fdisk, since the tools work completely differently (but what would you expect from MS).