MS DOS and disk drives maybe OT

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Fri Mar 14 12:30:00 2003

On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Ron Hudson wrote:
> Please forgive me if this is Off Topic...
> I have a 1 gig drive in a 486. The BIOS sees the whole 1.2 gig (wd
> caviar 21200)

the BIOS (disk I/O) or the CMOS setup program?

> and I have set the parameters from the plate on the drive into the
> bios...
CMOS
> But FDISK insists that the drive is only 504 MB. Who ate half of my
> disk drive??

WHICH version of MS-DOS?

> can I get it back?

yes

> how?
> I have tried to create secondary partitions but "no disk space remains"

Is your controller "EIDE"?
Received on Fri Mar 14 2003 - 12:30:00 GMT