I need some advice..
My son has a Pentium III at 600Mh computer with a
Tyan S1054 Trinity 400
and an Award Plug and play Bios extension 1.0A
1999 by Award software.
with an operating 40 Gb hard drive with Win 98 SE.
He purchased a Seagate 160 Gb EID hard drive
and attempted to install it using the Seagate install
wizard and Seagate tools. He intended to make this
drive the master boot drive with a new operating
system. The other drive would be formatted and
become a slave.
After running the Seagate Wizard and Seagate
tools the drive now is a 32 Gb drive and there seams to
be no way to change it using the Seagate Wizard
or tools.
The seagate help desk says that the problem is the
limitation of the computer bios and if we want to
use the drive in an other computer at its full
capacity, we need to do a Low Level format.
This involves filling the disk with zero's.
The Seagate tools changed the size value that
the bios sees for the drive. Why can't that
value be changed to the true size of the drive?
What can be done to get this drive back to
its "new" condition?
Wally
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