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Re: Wrong HD size in BIOS, Recovery?



On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Dan Hugo wrote:

> Apparently, I had forgotten to change the BIOS setting back to "AUTO"
> for the IDE drive probing, which I had set up when I first found that
> 3.2G drive to be flaky.  Ugh!

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I would suggest you tell the bios to auto-detect your disk, and then
cfdisk it, and make the free space into another partition. This should
avoid eating your data.

Matthew

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