I'll try that again, but it wouldn't let me format it before using the start-up disk. I had to attatch it as a slave on another computer to format it. Like I said, the CMOS auto-detects it, but says it's 1500 MB when all other sources tell me it's 504MB. There's no size indication on the label. It's a Maxtor 71626A, HDA/Uplevel: 67A, PCBA/Uplevel: 51A, Unique/Uplevel: 15B. Again, THANKS!

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Matt Wong is right ! But you boot up wait for the EZ text line appear and hold the ctrl button down. And then select to boot from a: insert DOS sys disk and hit enter. At the a: prompt type format c:/s. Like Wond says it will format and copy the sys files it takes to boot.

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At the A: prompt, I typed format: c/s. It said: Format not supported on drive C: Format terminated. A: ???

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Check your mail !

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I ran the EZ program. It went through installing the HDD, and then prompted me to insert a DOS setup disk in order to make the HDD useable for DOS. All went well, until after that, it asked me to restart. Upon restarting, the HDD would not boot to C:. It told me to insert a Boot disk into A:, so I did. Again, it could not boot with CD-ROM support, so again said there is not a valid FAT or FAT32 partition, and then it gave me the A: prompt. Back to square 1?

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I have just installed a hard drive and in bios it is a 1.2 Gb Hd but in windows 98 it is only recocnised as 500 Mb. How can get windows to use the whole disk?

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I had the same problem. First, you have to click FDISK on the ms-dos command prompt to partition the drive. Then, format the drive. Everything should work after that.

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For a Start welcome to buying crappy hard drives 2nd of all goto: http://www.maxtor.com/Maxtorhome.htm look @ the bulletin board at article 13003 about partition and fat 16 & 32 that should sort all your probs.. good luck

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I am also having the same problems. But here's the strange thing. I have a Award Bios v4.51PG. It checks all the IDE's and shows what it registers. I have a Maxtor HDD. Now it's suppose to register as a Maxtor HDD, but instead it registers as a Eaptgr HDD. Did you (Matt) have this problem? Though, my problem is a little different from yours. If I do a low level format, and then partition, the partition will stay and then I can setup Win98se. But after the installation of Win98, it will tell me to restart after I install all the necessary drivers & etc, after restart, it will fail again and the partition is MIA. Anyone help?

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I fixed the problem by getting myself a new hard drive. I think that is the best solution because I've asked around and they said that it's probably the hard drive failure by some defect and just get a new one!

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