format of a 30gig hard drive

[locutus]

Hi there
I have formatted my 30 gig hard drive , but am not sure it has been done properly , is there a problem when you format a drive over 2 gigs , does a dos boot disk not recognise anything over this and you have to do something extra ? hope you know what I am talking about as I need to clear the disk because of a virus and problems that were occuring.

Many thanks

[CyberSurfer]

My disk is 30 GB too, and I've never had any problems with it when I used a '98 boot disk, nor XP.

[jritchie]

Egads ... go Win2k or XP. Even in 2k l find you should break the primary disk into logical drives if over about 10gigs. Have a 20gig in this machine broken into 2 separate drives, but just to be really weird the slave 40gig drive formated no problems as a single drive.....

I think you'll run into problems with a DOS boot disk on large modern drives.....

[chrisjk]

Anything before Win95 OSR2 could not recognise paritions above 2GB. We had a PC delivered to us with a 10GB HDD at the time, 5 chuffin' partitions! Add in the CDs and it had 8 drives!

[markman]

if it has fat32, instead of fat16

[chrisjk]

Yeah if you wanna be techical

I'm beginning to think it was before Win98 actually...hmmm. Yeah, it was probably 98

[markman]

it was

during win98 setup, they have the screens saying how great it was because it supported this new technological file system