It's your boot disk. is it a windows start up disk or dos? Use a new windows startup disk to format it or even better use maxblast2 from Maxtor with this HD utility it will format and partition your drive in about 15seconds. http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/maxblast_plus_ii.htm Now hiring Independent Sales agents World wide. High commission please see www.seedsv.com for more info. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Allen" <chizotz@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: <24hoursupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 3:07 PM Subject: [24hoursupport] Strange Hard Drive Problem > > > Hello All, > > I am trying to fix up a computer I no longer use to give to my very young= > niece and nephew as a Christmas gift. > > P3 550MHz > Abit Be-6II mainboard, Award BIOS, 6/21/2000 I44BX-W977-6A69-KA19C-SH > 256Mb SDRAM > Maxtor 91531U3 15Gb Hard Drive > > When I go into the BIOS setup, it reports the correct size of the hard= > drive. When I fdisk the drive and try to format it, it is formatted as= > 2.1Gb. Yes, I have enabled large drive support in fdisk. Partition Magic= > 8.0 also sees it as a 2.1Gb drive when I try to fix the drive using PM= > rescue disks. I have replaced the mainboard battery, so that isn't it. I'm= > at a loss. The BIOS reports the correct 15.x Gb drive size from the setup= > screen, but does not report it correctly after exiting setup to the= > system. > > What am I missing folks? > > Thanks, > > Ron - Users can unsubscribe from this list by sending email to 24hoursupport-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web interface at http://webpages.charter.net/chizotz/