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Another damaged disk

Jaicster · 2002-11-25 10:02:29

I have this spare HD and was going to built a Word processing PC my grandparents, any way i formatted and then scandisk'd it, Yeah the thing i was just putting windows on and walked off, and an intelligent family member comes over and steals my scoket board!!!! When i came back i didn't know what was going on. Any way the…

25-11-2002 11:02am

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Jaicster

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I have this spare HD and was going to built a Word processing PC my grandparents, any way i formatted and then scandisk'd it,
Yeah the thing i was just putting windows on and walked off, and an intelligent family member comes over and steals my scoket board!!!!
When i came back i didn't know what was going on.

Any way the HD which has around 3 Gigs on it, now claims it only has 10 MB for some reason??

If theres a way to fix it i'll do it other wise i'll just buy another one.

Any help is welcomed
Thanks

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#2 25-11-2002 11:18am

BogoBot

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It may be set to 'type x' in the BIOS, where x is a number 1-40 or so....these settings are present for compatability with legacy devices. Set the IDE channels to AUTO and that might fix it.

Bogobot.

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#3 25-11-2002 1:55pm

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check the bios settings, and if you don't mind losing the data on the disk then debug the drive and it should be ok

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