Bios HD detection OK, but wrong capacity shown on Boot

Snugglebear · Post by **Snugglebear** » Wed Aug 21, 2002 6:42 pm

OS/filesystem issue. If the bios gets it right there's nothing wrong with the driver, controller, or interface. The only times I've seen OSes do this is when the drive has garbage in the MBR/partition tables or is wildly overclocked.

Snugglebear · Post by **Snugglebear** » Thu Aug 22, 2002 8:40 am

The fdisk /mbr doesn't alter the addressing/partition data in the partition tables, it only rewrites the code used for booting. A good article on it is here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... -US;Q69013&

As for how to fix your problem, I know there are a few utils floating around. I believe Partition Magic can fix something like this, but then I'm very old-school when it comes to disk issues - I back up the data and then wipe the drive clean with a LLF, afterwords reinstalling/reloading data.

mibberz · Post by **mibberz** » Fri Aug 30, 2002 11:25 pm

partition magic