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Harlen Linke <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 20 Nov 2000 21:37:44 -0500
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At 07:52 PM 11/20/00 -0500, you wrote:

>Under the "Performance" tab it says that Drive C: and Drive D: are using
>
>DOS compatibility mode file systems.  It also says it will cause things
>to move slower.

and

>Could it be the BIOS (which is what I'm thinking)?  I think I followed
>the instructions in setting it up, but I can tell you the Auto detect
>only detected a 2 gig hard drive instead of a 20 gig hard drive.  I had
>to set it to "Large" in order to get it to read the full capacity.



When ever I've run across this, I've gone into the bios and checked that
the hard drive is set to LBA mode. I can't imagine your BIOS is old enough
not to recognize that size HD. Usually setting it to LBA would get rid of
that problem for me.

Harlen Linke

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