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Old July 8th, 2003, 01:28 AM
brownmola brownmola is offline
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Help formatting a new hard drive
Hello, I recently was given a Maxtor 40GB hard drive and have successfully installed it physically, however I am having trouble getting it to work properly. After the physical installation, I checked my BIOS during startup and could see that my computer recognized the new hard drive. I then, on advice from a friend, went to the startup disk and then to "fdisk". I then followed the directions from this site: http://www.cybertechhelp.com/html/tu...rial.php/id/73

Once finished, my new 40 GB hard drive, showed up as only having 8 GB available???

Thanks,
Donny.
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Old July 8th, 2003, 01:35 AM
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Hi brownmola,
Did the BIOS recognize the entire size of the HDD? How old is this computer?
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