-=> on 02-26-05 05:32, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to MATT MC_CARTHY <=-

 WC> Last I saw of the drive it was listing it's size as 85 Gig while
 WC> in fact it's a 65 Gig drive.
 WC> Such is what the original release Win 98 fdisk did to the hard drive.

 WC> Now nothing sees the drive at all.

So, can you remember what _changed_ between those two events?

What hard/software indicated that 85GB size?  Sounds like some software
caused the HDD to get confused as to the CHS/ LBA translation it was
autodetected / fdisked/ and/or formatted to.  No?

- - -  JimH.




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