Angela,

It could be several things, such as an incorrect BIOS configuration setting
the drive as a 2 GB drive, or a BIOS limitation to 4,095 cylinders, or you
formatted in FAT (aka FAT16) which has a 2 GB limitation, or you are using
Windows NT 4 which has an initial limitation of 2GB, or, well, you get the
idea.  To really assist you we need to know the following:

1) Does your BIOS natively support the drive?  On boot, or in the BIOS
setup, is your computer recognizing the drive correctly as a 20 GB drive?

2) What is the make of our drive (i.e. Maxtor, Seagate, Western Digital,
etc.)?

3) What Operating System are you running (i.e. DOS, Windows 95a, Windows 95b
(aka OEM SR2), Windows 98, Windows Me, etc.)?

4) When you fdisked and formatted it, what did fdisk say regarding the file
system (FAT, FAT32)?

Fred Nielson
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Angela Espinoza
  Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 4:37 AM
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  Subject: [PCBUILD] Hard drive



  Hi I just got a 20GB for my computer but it is only reading 1.99Gb how can
I change the this, do I have to reformat the hard drive again, please help

  --- Angela Espinoza
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