MS DOS and disk drives maybe OT

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Date: Fri Mar 14 23:18:01 2003

Make sure your BIOS supports LBA mode. Else use a drive overlay,
which can also be a source of problems later.







At 12:09 AM 3/14/03 -0800, you 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)
>and I have set the parameters from the plate on the drive into the bios...
>
>But FDISK insists that the drive is only 504 MB. Who ate half of my disk
>drive??
>
>can I get it back?
>
>how?
>
>I have tried to create secondary partitions but "no disk space remains"
>
>
>Thanks.
>
>ron.
Received on Fri Mar 14 2003 - 23:18:01 GMT