I have a computer that would only recognize 8.4gb of my 20gb drive, but I
just used the manual setup in the BIOS (rather than AUTO) and typed in the
number of cylinders and number of heads, and I am happily using all 20
gigabytes of the drive.


On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Rodgers Family wrote:

> I have to replace my hard drive (2.1 ST32120A segate) in my older Packard Bell (M400) computer which after tests show physical damage and I  need to know how big or small of one I can replace it with or does it matter? What about capability? (memory is 16 mb and was running win95 upgraded to 98se)
> Any suggestions on buying use ones?or where?
>
> thank-you
>
> Dawn Rodgers
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