[Ham-Computers] HD Problems.

[Jim Hill]

Regarding "wiping" your hard drive:
There is a free downloadable utility called Bootitng that will delete 
partitions, erase your hard drive, fix the MBR, etc.  I'll need to 
look up the information, but will do so if you are still interested.
Jim


At 02:01 PM 10/15/2007, you wrote:
>I just installed a seond hard disk on my computer, 40GB.
>
>OS is Windows 98SE.
>
>I turn on the computer and the startup BIOS information shows it as:
>
>Primary Slave Disk 40016 MB UDMA2
>
>Windows sees nothing.
>
>I have Windows check for new hardware.  It finds a 2400 baud generic modem,
>which is actually a USRobitic 56K, but nothing else.
>
>I play with hardware profiles and I see the second drive listed as a Generic
>IDE Disk Type 47, but no other specs.  The only option selectable is
>"Removable".  I select it and Windows now sees the disk, but tells me it is
>not formatted.  It tells me I have to format it before I can use it which
>makes sense.  I format it, but my only choice for size is 8063.5 MB, far
>less than 40,016 MB.  I figure I can fix this later so I let the computer do
>what it wants to at least see the disk.  It formats the 40GB drive and now
>tells me it is 7.85GB, even less than when I started...
>
>I check the BIOS at startup to see if there are some settings that need to
>be changed.
>
>BIOS says I have a 40016MB disk, but shows CHS Capacity as 8422MB and
>Maximum LBA Capacity as 40016MB.  What are these capacities?
>
>How can I get Windows 98SE to see what I really have and operate it as such,
>drive D:\, a second hard-drive, not removable media???
>
>Thanks,
>
>Kurt
>
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