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ECS Systems wrote:
> 
> I am trying to help a friend install a hard drive in a system with a IBM
> 200+ ( Cyrix ). The problem is that the drive which is a Maxtor 1.2 GB hard
> drive and the CMOS when trying to auto detect is telling me that it is 9945
> in size instead of 1260. The drive did work properly before but now seems to
> be misrepresenting the size in autodetect. I have been to Maxtors homepage
> and there are no troubleshooting tips that relate to this type of
> problem....  HELPP!!!!!!!!


I don't know if this is your problem or not but:  computers can have
trouble telling the size of large hard drives, I think it's greater than
1.2 GB, but I'm not sure.  My computer's BIOS quite happily tells me
that my 2.5 GB hard drive is a 450 MB but it works fine, although it
does know that my 1.2 GB drive is a 1.2 GB drive...  I don't know if
that helps or not, readin throuh what I just wrote probably not!

What I would suggest, is telling the BIOS manually how many heads and
cylanders and things manually, partition (if you want - definately if
you are using FAT16 - the default DOS / WINDOWS type), format and see if
it works.  NOTE: if you don't know these things, contact Maxtor and find
out from them.

Quentin
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