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| Thread ID: 31155 | 2003-03-13 22:41:00 | PC not correctly recognizing hard drive size | lardass (262) | Press F1 |
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| 127861 | 2003-03-13 22:41:00 | I have just purchased a new FIC AN17 motherboard with an Athlon XP1800 CPU -- when I right click the 'c' drive icon within 'My Computer' and click on 'properties it is recognizing the hard drive as being only about 2GB in size when it is actually a 20GB drive! I gather I need to change some settings within the CMOS/BIOS and possibly reformat the drive (I hope not!). Any advice welcome!! |
lardass (262) | ||
| 127862 | 2003-03-13 22:57:00 | check in bios that it has auto detected the drive. what have you formated the drive as?? (eg fat16,fat32,ntfs) | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 127863 | 2003-03-13 22:57:00 | probably need to auto detect the drive in the bios. also check the jumper on the drive, i know that on many drives there is a jumper setting that limits the drive to 2GB.. |
nadius (3249) | ||
| 127864 | 2003-03-13 23:14:00 | drive is formatted as Fat32 and is only about 6-8 months old. Bios has auto-detected the drive but still only recognizes it as a 2GB drive |
lardass (262) | ||
| 127865 | 2003-03-14 02:18:00 | Windows 95? | Graham L (2) | ||
| 127866 | 2003-03-14 02:58:00 | Win 95 would have more problems than that as it won't run on an Duron 1200 let alone an Athlon 1800+. | mikebartnz (21) | ||
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