Kevin Nowicki wrote:

> Dear Listers:
>
> I know this has come up before but thought I wouldn't be in the same position,
> and now I find I'm in that position.
>
> I can't get dos to recognize above 504megs!  It's a 2.1 gig HD.  I go into
> fdisk and it tops out at 504megs.  I had to reformat the drive (which at the
> time did recognize 2.1 gig) and when I got to fdisk it would only go to 504
> megs. I'm using a dos 6.2 boot disk.
>
> system:
> Shuttle Hot-555A Version 3.2
> Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
> 11-11-97-i430vx, 8680-2A59GH2KC-00
> Samsung WA32162A  (2.1gig)
> 32Mg SDRAM
>
> When I boot up, the boot screen shows the HD as 2.1 gig.
>
> Any help would be appreciated, thanks.
>
> Kevin Nowicki
>

 Hello Kevin

You may want to make sure your bios can support the LBA.. This might be the
problem if not and you dont want to get another mb you may want to see if the
hard drive manufacture has a disk that will let your system reconize the
drive..Hope this helps

Pam Wicks


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