Thank you for your response.

Actually, that is the first thing I thought of, but I ruled that out
because of the following:

1.  The computer is a P-133 (a little old, but should have a BIOS able
to see large hard drives.

2.  When I first boot up the auto-detection screen reports a 1.2 gig HD.

Did the above lead me to wrongly rule out a BIOS problem???

Thanks

Marc Axelrod

> ----------
> From:         Jim Meagher[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:         Monday, February 23, 1998 7:30 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: [PCBUILD] Hard Drive problem
>
> Axelrod, Marc wrote:
> >
> > Hi:
> >
> > I happened on a problem yesterday which is a new one on me.  I was
> > working on a friend's computer.  He has a maxtor 1.2 gig HD, but it
> only
> > formats to about 520 meg.
>
> Marc,
>
> Your friend's computer is not capable of "seeing" a drive bigger
> than 520 meg. You need to use FDISK and set up TWO partitions, a
> primary(50%) and an extended (50%), then you can format C: and
> format D: and your friend will have two hard disks.
>
> +++OR++++
>
> Use the software that came with the hard drive to set up the Dynamic
> Drive Overlay so that DOS can see the whole disk at once.
>
>
> --
> Jim Meagher
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