Formatting Partitions for Large disks?

[Mihir Wagle <wagle@cems.umn.edu>]

Hi:

We just got a 450 PII from Micron with a 10.1 GB hard disk. It was 
partitioned with a 2 GB FAT and 8 GB NTFS partition. We wanted to wipe 
out everything and install Redhat Linux. But somehow, only 8 GB of the 
hard drive is being seen by FDISK. I also remember seeing an error 
message in my NT setup saying that the disk had more than 1024 cylinders. 
Is this the source of the problem? How can I reclaim the lost 2 GB?

I  can provide the fdisk partition table, but it spans from cylinder 0 
to 1023 and seems OK...

Is there some low-level format tool we can use?


DIsk druid also can't find the missing 2 GB...

We did install Linux on the 8 GB and the boot messages show that the hard 
drive has 9728 MB available. ALso the BIOS shows 10 GB...

ANy help?

Thanks

Mihir


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