Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 420 CDT, hard drive problem

From: Henry B Jobin (hbjobin_at_prodigy.net)
Date: 07/02/03 

Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 13:18:24 GMT

use the command "fdisk/mbr" (without quotes) from DOS command line
and then fdisk the drive as you normally would followed by formating. you
then will have full capacity.

Let us know if it works.

Henry

"Leo" <hippogriff@animail.net> wrote in message
news:448bd792.0307020417.439dc7f8@posting.google.com...
> The drive is a 20GB IBM travelstar, which used to have Linux on it. I
> now need to install Win98SE; booting from a Win98 floppy and running
> fdisk, the drive only appears to be 16MB. Boot from a Linux floppy and
> the drive is 20GB again!
>
> I have put the drive into a desktop and was able to use fdisk to
> create a 20GB primary dos partition and format it. Putting the drive
> back into the laptop and running fdisk again to show the partition
> information resulted in a 20GB partition showing, but still displaying
> total disk size as 16MB.
>
> I have also used the IBM Drive Fitness Test software, which correctly
> identifies the drive as 20GB; the drive passes all tests and has been
> low level formatted and had it's boot sector erased.Various versions
> of fdisk have been tried, but always always with the same result; in
> the laptop the drive is only 16MB.
>
> The laptop bios is the latest version, not that it makes much
> difference, it doesn't display any drive details anyway.
>
> I keep thinking that the problem has to be Linux-related, because the
> Linux installation had a 16MB partition on the drive, but I can't
> understand why the laptop is seeing only 16MB when nothing else does.
>
> Any ideas?

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