How do I get rid of partitions? HDD has 2GIG, windows showed 1gig (guy I got it from said it had a dos partition) I did fdisk to delete the partition, and wiped everything, reloaded win3.1, now it shows about 500mg. Help! Thanks

Hi, Enter CMOS setup and look how your drive is set here. To use whole capacity of the drive you need to enable LBA mode. Perform HDD autodetection and select option with LBA. If you have AMI bios, then you will need to enable LBA mode in Advanced Setting section. Unfortunately some old bioses not support LBA mode and if you have such bios you will be able to use only about 500M of you drive capacity. Good luck, Igor M

I have Award BIOS, on the HDD detection, it shows 3 OPTIONS SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANZ SECT MODE _____________________________________________ 2(Y) 2008 973 64 0 3892 63 LBA 1 2009 3893 16 65535 3892 63 NORM 3 2008 1946 32 65535 3892 63 LARG I can only select the one with (Y) and it is LBA. what does this mean?

I have Award BIOS, on the HDD detection, it shows 3 OPTIONS SIZE CYLS HEAD PRECOMP LANZ SECT MODE _____________________________________________ 2(Y)____2008__973__64_____0____3892__63___LBA 1_______2009_3893__16___65535__3892__63___NORM 3_______2008_1946__32___65535__3892__63___LARG I can only select the one with (Y) and it is LBA. what does this mean?

LBA works just fine. I use it on my 850 MB HD.

Mr. None is right. LbA works fine. Moreover it's the only option which allows you to use whole capacity of hard drive. In your case you must select LBA. Igor M

IN FDISK CHOOSE OPTION 4 IE DISPLAY PARTITION INFORMATION, SEE IF YOU HAVE SOME SPACE LEFT IN THE HDD. THERE IS LIMITATION IN THE MAXIMUM SIZE OF A SINGLE DRIVE IE 504MB ENABLE LBA OR LARGE IN YOUR BIOS FOR YOUR HARD DRIVE, AND THEN CHOOSE YES WHEN YOU RUN FDISK IF IT ASK YOU FOR LARGE DISK SUPPORT.