stupid PC tricks

From: SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com <(SUPRDAVE_at_aol.com)>
Date: Mon May 15 21:17:57 2000

In a message dated 5/15/00 9:39:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time, red_at_bears.org
writes:

> All right.
>
> I undefined the disk in CMOS (which now believes there is no hard disk
> installed) but I'm having the same problem. FDISK hangs creating a new
> partition, just after it says "Drive capacity is 77 Mbytes" or the message
> to that effect.
>
> I checked out the jumpers on the unit, and they are set for IRQ 11, BIOS
> address C8000, I/O port 170, drive select 0.

using dos 5 or higher? (no 32meg partition limit with ver 5) try booting dos,
run FDISK /MBR

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