On Friday, March 14, 2003, at 10:27 AM, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
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?
CMOS setup program... (press del as the machine boots)
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?
6.2.2
can I get it back?
yes
how?
I have tried to create secondary partitions but "no disk space
remains"
Is your controller "EIDE"?
um, stumped here.
It's an ISA card and also has serial and parallel, game port and floppy
connectors on it.