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HARD DRIVE INSTALLATION BROBLEM

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Name: alh
Date: December 7, 1998 at 06:50:37 Pacific
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I RECIENTLY INSTALLED A SECOND HARD DRIVE INTO MY WINDOWS 95 RUN PENTIUM SYSTEM. WINDOWS WILL ONLY RECOGNIZE 1.3 GB OF THE 4.3 GB AVAILIBLE. HOW DI I FIX IT? I CANT FIND A WAR TO EVEN PARTITION IT.



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Name: tencentaxi
Date: August 22, 1999 at 11:43:58 Pacific
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I have a Quantum Fireball Plus KA 6.4 GB hard drive. I have tried FDisk.exe and boot up but when it starts up windows95....it says no operating system detected. Help!
thanks


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Response Number 2
Name: joe smith
Date: January 4, 2000 at 15:28:29 Pacific
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How do I run fdisk.exe to fix my hard drive?


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Response Number 3
Name: Starfox
Date: February 16, 2000 at 05:01:47 Pacific
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Alb,

you may have an old motherboard, I know that the LX MB can only recognize up to 8 gigs.
Maybe your first hard drive is too big already (about 7gigs)


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Response Number 4
Name: GizMo
Date: February 24, 2000 at 11:43:15 Pacific
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What are the steps to install a 2gig hard drive into a PC?


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Response Number 5
Name: julian Tante
Date: August 26, 2000 at 12:16:15 Pacific
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i have problems with my hard drive when trying to format it. a message appears saying invalid media or track 0 bad-disk unusable

and in scan disk there's and overflow telling me to check stacks config.sys

can you help me plz

thanks a lot

cheers


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Response Number 6
Name: Ken
Date: September 2, 2000 at 02:38:37 Pacific
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When I try to fdisk it says (no partitions found. How fix this.


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Response Number 7
Name: simon
Date: September 24, 2000 at 19:30:34 Pacific
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ahhh
i jist bought a 20 gig h/d and i set it to slave and it wouldn't format it, and when i finally did it said something like "bootlog error virus something something"
i am worried that i bought a screwed h/d
any advice?
chrs!


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