my samsung SV0802N 80-gb hard disk is showing only 31.46gb space?

Question

I as unable to boot from hard disk so i tried out formatting and reinstalling the operating system but the formatting process is not going further 0%. I also tried out fdisk but was unsuccessfull. I have also connected the hard disk as primary slave still I am unable to format it.

Answer 1

How old is your computer? Lots of older BIOSes can't recognize hard drives larger than 40gb, the FAT32 file system cannot format a single volume larger than 32gb and some hard drives even have a "32gb limit" jumper. Of course if this same drive was previously used at higher capacity, the jumper setting isn't what's limiting you.



To see the drive's full capacity on older hardware, you need either a BIOS upgrade, a PCI disk controller card instead of the motherboard IDE controller, or to load some kind of disk manager software. In any case, Windows 95/98/Me would require you to split the drive into 32gb partitions (maximum size). Same for Windows 2000, unless you format using NTFS.





If you can't get past 0% on the format even at 32gb, the drive might have a physical problem.

Answer 2

You need to run fdisk first, then shut the system down and restart, then run format c:/s. You can do this with a floppy disk

Answer 3

Dont use Fdisk or other utility for format. Just use default commands in computer. Like if you want to format C drive goto my computer and right click on the drive, click on "Format" choose the method "Full". This is most realiable method. But dont forget to take all neccessary backup of drivel in other partition.

Answer 4

take a Window XP CD and format your PC with that