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how to get my 12 gig hard drive back?
Name: n foster Date: February 1, 2000 at 15:34:43 Pacific
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I have just fdisked my new hard drive but messed it up and now it says its only 504m Its a Samsung sv1296a 12 gig really I did get it to shoe 8 gig the first time I did it,when it gave me the option on fat32. Now it won't do that and just sets up at 504 when I format and no fat32 in fdisk HELP>>thanks
Name: TopGun Date: February 1, 2000 at 15:42:09 Pacific
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Does your bios support LBA (logical block addressing). If it does then set you primary master in your BIOS to LBA enabled.
If it does not then your drive probably had something that fools the system into thinking it does support LBA. Western Digital drives have a program called "drive master" or something like that, just for this purpose. It alows you to put a larger drive on a system that can only handle a 540 meg drive...
Hope this helps....
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Response Number 2
Name: Bill K. Date: February 1, 2000 at 19:03:48 Pacific
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Go to www.maxtor.com and download "Maxblast" or "Ez-Drive" disk manager program.
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Response Number 3
Name: lars Date: February 2, 2000 at 22:16:34 Pacific
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use fdisk for operating system you are going to install ie win98 startup disk
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