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| ms wrote in :
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| Sorry, editing
|
| This post should read:
| In my BING screen "Work with Partitions", I created 4 FAT32
| partitions. They completely use the 10 GB hard drive, no free
space.
|
| The first 3 are listed in the screen with names including ANP, the
| last one is MBR Entry 3. There is no indication the first partition
is
| active. Does BING do that automatically?
|
| When I created the last partition, it went OK. When it completed
| formatting and error checking, looked OK but now at the top of the
| screen is the legend "errors exist". I looked in Properties in each
| partition, no error notation.
|
| Comment?
|
| ms
|
|
|
| BIOS screen on bootup,
| Primary Master LBA, UDMA 66, 10247 MB
|
| Standard Cmos Setup screen:
| Primary Master Auto
| Slave None
| Secondary Master Auto
| Slave None
|
| IDE Autodetect:
| 2 (Y) 10241 1245 cyl .... LBA mode
|
| 1 10248 19856 Normal
|
| 3 10248 2482 Large

Well, that certainly looks good now, getting the full hard drive. I was
overjoyed! There certainly are a huge number of screens in there,
though, & I must wonder whether something else is being missed. I've
posted the older settings below for someone to comment.

| When I ran the Fujitsu diag, (it always ran fine before), it opened
and
| detects a non-Fujitsu hard drive! It won't run, and the only
difference
| is the BIOS is set to Auto.

Why! Why! Why! BIOS appears to have auto-detected the correct amount of
GB for a...
Fujitsu MPE 3102AT 10 GB
...., which by Google search is 10.2 GB. What was the utility that said
it was a Fujitsu in the first place? Maybe run that again to get a new
report.

We were so close to getting the full amount! The proper manufacturer's
hard drive diagnostic utility is supposed to correct the errors-- not
disown the drive!

| Two issues:
| a. BING says errors present, doesn't show them.
|
| b. now the Fujitsu util does not detect the Fujitsu hard drive.
|
| ms

.....Quote older BIOS settings...........
Standard CMOS Setup
Primary Master User 7921 MB ....LBA
Primary Slave None 0
Secondary Master Auto 0 Auto
Secondary Slave None 0

BIOS Features
Hard disk boot from Pri-IDE-M
HDD Smart Capability Enabled

Power Management
HDD Power Down Disabled

Integrated Peripherals
?? IDE Channel 10. 11 Enabled
IDE Prefetch mode Enabled
IDE HDD Block mode Enabled
Primary Master P10 auto
Primary Master UDMA auto

?? - can't read my own writing!

HDD Autodetect
Select Primary Master
Options Sector
2(Y) 10241..... 63 LBA
1 10248......63 Normal
3 10248 63 Large
.......EOQ ms's older BIOS settings..........