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herura · 10-20-2002, 09:42 AM

I have an old Packard Bell Legend PC. The HD failed and I replaced it only now the system will not detect the new HD. I manually set the drive geomertry in the BIOS and it detected the drive. When I run Fdisk it detects the drive, but only sees 503 MB, not the 2.5GB that the drive containes. I checked the BIOS settings and they match what is on the drive and on top of that the BIOS shows it as a 2.5GB drive so the settings must be correct.
Any clue as to why Fdisk does not show the correct size???
Thanks for any help!

10-20-2002, 09:42 AM	#1 (permalink)
herura Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Cumberland MD Posts: 109	See today's most popular deals at » PC not detecting HD I have an old Packard Bell Legend PC. The HD failed and I replaced it only now the system will not detect the new HD. I manually set the drive geomertry in the BIOS and it detected the drive. When I run Fdisk it detects the drive, but only sees 503 MB, not the 2.5GB that the drive containes. I checked the BIOS settings and they match what is on the drive and on top of that the BIOS shows it as a 2.5GB drive so the settings must be correct. Any clue as to why Fdisk does not show the correct size??? Thanks for any help!