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the problem is the bios and how old it is, it may not regonise the drive
properlly and the best thing to do is make sure that anything over 1.gig has
LBA next to the figures it comes up with....

I had a computer that I had a 6.5 gig HD to and the bios would not recognise
the drive unless it had some sort of overlay from the manufacturer
installed.

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Quentin Christensen wrote in message <34D8FADB.3F01F1EE@ozramp.net.au>...
>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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