14 Gb drive on ThinkPad 770Z

Rob Mayoff linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:32:22 -0500 (CDT)


| I'm left with the problem that fdisk and Disk Druid don't seem able to see
| beyond 1024 cylinders, while there should be 1826.  Had I retained the
| Windows partitioning, it sounds like I would have been OK.  Given that I've
| already blown that away (and don't really want it back anyway), would you
| have any advise?

In fdisk, run "x" to get the extended commands, then "c" and set the
number of cylinders to 1826.  You will probably see warnings about
logical and physical partition endings not matching after that.  Don't
worry about it.