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David Olds <[log in to unmask]>
Mon, 8 Mar 1999 15:45:13 -0500
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Seagate comes with their partioning software on the drive itself. You should
fdisk this drive to remove the 20mb partition. Then you will be able to
repartition the drive to full capacity.

Dave Olds

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Hannum <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, March 08, 1999 3:24 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] System only recognizes 20MB on a 1.7MB HDD


>Hello everyone,
>
>I have a Pentium 166 MMX system that came with a Western Digital 2.5GB HDD.
>(Partitioned off into 1.9GB and 600MB sections).  I just added a 1.7GB
>Seagate.  I set the CMOS to recognize it but the system only sees 20MB on
>the drive.  What should I know to remide this?
>

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