I agree with Tom, the first place to start is the cmos. I have made it a habit to always fdisk a hd before formatting to insure that the partitions are the way I want them. You will have the option in the fdisk program to view the current partitions to see if they are the way you want them.

On Wed, 5 Nov 2003 14:21:17 EST, [log in to unmask] wrote:

>I have a hard drive which I removed from my computer to use a 2.5 GB drive.
>It is a 1 GB drive and was showing it's full size when in the computer when I
>got it.  I then put it in the computer as a slave to have extra space but now
>it only shows 500 MB.  Is there a way I can get it back to the full 1 GB size?
> Will fdisking it work to bring it back to full size?  Formatting it didn't
>work.
>
>Roger Nicholson
>
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