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is what the BIOS sees also not related to the patch?

hello ajzchips - looked at ubcd; don't quite understand yet in what stage it would have been of use with the problem that I had. besides: from your reactions I get the impression that the "misreadings" of the HDD specs in BIOS and FDISK are quite normal , when using this (kind of) patch. I always li...

you were right, after formatting, under windows, 76,3 Gb is available. thanks a lot!

thanks for your reassuring words. i still worry a bit, however, because it's not just the Mb/Gb bug: the other data in CMOS are also very different from the HDD-specs that I found elsewhere: the numbers of cylinders (given as 9964 instead of 16383) and of heads (given as 255 instead of 16). - ???

Correction : Checking again, I found that in CMOS the HDD is given as 81 Mb, not 81 Gb, as I first , wishfully, thought to see ! Help!

thanks ajzchips - it worked fine: 80 Gb now firmly installed in CMOS, with a nice long line appearing as the new BIOS-id during POST . However : when trying to format the new HDD, in FDISK only 12624Mb is given as the size of it. Can anyone tell me how to take this hurdle?

80 Gb 10/19/1999 - i440BX - smc602 - 6A69KM3JC-00 Ran into problems trying to run this HDD on a HP vectra vei8. Downloaded FlashBIOS from HP-site – that didn’t help. Came across this site, which gave me new hope. However, I can’t find anywhere exactly how to use the BIOS-with-patch. My best guess wo...