Formating drive

[metalist333]

My hard drive went bad.I installed another drive the same size by the same manufacturer
When I deleted partion and formatted.It showed 504MG.The drive I have is 853.I went to cmos and set for auto.At boot up it shows 853Mb but in fdisk it shows 504.Whats wrong?

[a Bill]

Make sure you deleted ALL te partitions.

[Donkey]

Have you got LBA enabled in BIOS. if it is quite old PC it will need that to read drive fully.
Donkey

[Twosteps]

is it an older sys? what os ya using too.
makes a diff. sometimes ya have to tell it or update the bios

[Axel]

Who made the drive? - Was it a Western Digital and did you ever use EZ formating software on it?? - You may need to get a special format or uninstaller to get that EZ stuff off of there.

A low level format might work, but just as easily might make the drive un-usable as well.

Also, specifying the cylinders and other parameters manually in the CMOS settings might do the trick. If the drive itself doesn't have all the specs needed for a "user" defined drive setting printed on the label, the manufacturer's web site might have them.