----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Windle" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 12:06 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] partioning new hard drive
> I want to install a 20.5 g Western Digital hard drive, but following the
> instructions with it I am told my limit is 2.7 g. I talked with Gateway
and
> they say I should not have this problem with my system. So why when
> following the instructions I can't partition any higher...Any ideas?
>
> Larry Windle
>
Does your BIOS detect the new WD drive as 20G? if so, FDISK has no problem
to work on it. Nospin.com has a guide to use FDISK. anyway, just remember:
when start FDISK, answer "yes" to enable large harddisk support (must).
Jun Qian
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