Re: 5 gig hd only reads as 2 gig after much grief and trying...

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From: Shenan Stanley (news_helper_at_hushmail.com)
Date: 02/02/04 

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 20:22:33 -0600

PlumbBob wrote:
> I'm sorry to sound pathetic but I am at my wits end. I tried to
> install XP on a computer that had 98 on it with a 5.25 gig that
> worked fine with 5.25 gig of hard drive. I then upgraded to XP and
> formatted the drive with the 98 start disk. Then used XP fixmbr
> command along with fdisk to make a nw dos primary partition.... XP
> installed great but only shows 2 gig of space, and ran out of room
> while installing service pack #1. I have reformatted, fdisked,
> fixmbred till I got blisters. The bios only show it as a 2 gig drive
> also, one last point, my mom has the exact same system and our bios
> settings are identical and hers shows 5.25 gig on 98..... Any help
> would be greatly appreciated! Thank You, Bob

If the BIOS sees it as 2GB and you have double checked the jumper settings
and tried entering the settings for the drive manually into the BIOS, then
you have a defective piece of hardware somewhere. Likely the drive, could
be the controller.

But if the BIOS doesn't see the full capacity, Windows XP never will. 

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