Preparing 160Gb Hard Drive in 98SE

[Painter Mike]

Win 98SE (FAT32) system (on a 40Gb disk). Want to prepare my 160Gb Seagate Hard Drive as the new Master Drive. Promise TX2 Ultra ATA100 x4 IDE HDC card fitted which recognises the full 160Gb (149Gb). I have no third party format/partion tools.

1) How do I get 2x 80Gb partitions on the new drive using Fdisk? From my 40Gb based OS (or Floppy Disk boot to the new Drive), Fdisk will only recognise (partition) around 27Gb on the new HD, with only a tiny bit more recognised for the second partition.

2) Will Fdisk format the whole 160Gb drive? It has a disfunctional OS on it & I want to ensure the whole thing is formated properly.

3) Will Scandisk (and Defrag) work OK on a 160Gb HD with 2x 80Gb partitions or will I have to make more smaller partitions?

4) If I cannot do any of the above, is there any cheap/free 3rd party tool available that will do Partition, Format, Scandisk & Defrag on a 160Gb drive in FAT32 from a Win 98SE system?

Thanks

[glc]

FDISK shows incorrect size info when the drive is larger than 64gb. You have to partition using percentages. Use FDISK to remove all existing partitions, then create a new primary DOS partition using 50% of the drive.