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Re: How big is my H/D ?



>Did you put a 2 GB drive in your computer?  Most likely it's a 2GB but
>DOS is so horribly broken that it only sees the first 504 MB of the
>drive.  Just be glad Linux isn't and use the whole 2 gigs.  (No, you
>don't need to upgrade your bios, unless it's giving you boot errors,
>but there should be something in the bios that says "Ignore boot
>errors" or something like that).
>
>HTH,
>Peter
>

Thanks for the help Peter - I have no idea what size the disk is - I bought
the computer from a charity shop for $5.00 !!!

Really I believe, as you obviously do, that DOS lies but wanted to be sure.
 Also the reading from both BIOS and Partition Manager cause me some
confusion.

Ivan.

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