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Is the drive recognized correctly by the BIOS at boot-up?<br />
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Type the following command from a dos prompt:<br />
FDISK /STATUS<br />
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Please post the results here.<br />
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Regards,<br />
Ralph<br />

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Is the drive recognized correctly by the BIOS at boot-up?

Type the following command from a dos prompt:
FDISK /STATUS

Please post the results here.

Regards,
Ralph


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I still can't solve it!<br />
this what I got from (fdisk/status):<br />
Disk 1 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Mbytes &nbsp; &nbsp;Free &nbsp; &nbsp; Usege<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;504 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;100%<br />
c: &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;503 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br />

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I still can't solve it!
this what I got from (fdisk/status):
Disk 1          Mbytes    Free     Usege
                   504          1            100%
c:                503      


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You must make sure that the drive is configured for LBA mode in the BIOS,if your BIOS doesn't support LBA mode you will need to use the Utility that came with the drive to configure above 500 MB.<br />

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You must make sure that the drive is configured for LBA mode in the BIOS,if your BIOS doesn't support LBA mode you will need to use the Utility that came with the drive to configure above 500 MB.


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The capacity on my hard drive is 500 mb, while It's origanally 1 GB. I want to know what wrong have I done,<br />
since I always play with my computer. Thank you.
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The capacity on my hard drive is 500 mb, while It's origanally 1 GB. I want to know what wrong have I done,
since I always play with my computer. Thank you.

Hard drive problem

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