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The way I do it seems inefficient. In order to prepare for a Windows 98 installation, I boot up using a win98 "DOS based" floppy disk, then fdisk the HDD at the A:\ prompt, then format c: the HDD. The problem with this is that the fdisk (and format) utilities seem to get the capacity of the HDD wrong. For instance, fdisk only made a 10.something GB partition on my 80GB HDD. Strange - why just 10.x GB?
Please can someone recommend some kind of bootable utility (preferably floppy disk based, as I sometimes use 486 mobos) which is better than booting up from a standard win98 "DOS" floppy disk? Thanks a lot.
Also, I use SeaTools for DOS to limit the capacity on my HDDs, for testing purposes. I usually select a small capacity, something like 2 or 8 or 10 GB. This makes the fdisk and format processes much faster. I connected up a "capacity capped" HDD to my current Gigabyte mobo (GA-K8NS), and unlike all of my other mobos, this mobo *can* see beyond the dreaded 28-bit LBA 127GB boundary. Consequently, the mobo completely ignored the "capacity capped" limit, and reported the HDD at its maximum capacity. I tried to impose the capacity limit on the HDD again using SeaTools for DOS, but it failed - it wouldn't allow me to cap the drive's capacity.
