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New hard drive
Name: gkv Date: February 18, 2002 at 19:58:03 Pacific
Comment:
i bought a used drive. its a western digital 4.1 gb hard drive. in my system i had a maxtor 1.6 gb hard drive. i tried plugging in the new hard drive but the computer wont read it automatically. i went into the bios and configured it manually. it reads. however, when i go into fdisk, it shows wrong disk space (472 mb instead of 4.1 GB). i tried deleting and creating partition but it does not work. can anybody help?
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