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Hey Garebo, Yeah he did eventually start his own thread. And I did finally get the 27 gig drive to show up. I used killdisk to wipe it clean. My best guess as to what happened is that the file system that win98 uses ( fat32 ) was somehow not jiving with the NTFS that XP uses. It could...

CD ROM lights will stay on when the ribbon cable is plugged in wrong. Make sure the side with the red strip is on pin 1 on the motherboard and on pin 1 of the CD ROM connector. Otherwise try another cable. Same with your Hard Drive.

My laptop LCD screen garbles after a few minutes of being on... I dont know how to tell if its a hardware issue or a software issue.. It sometimes starts to garble right when I turn it on.. It starts with just a few missing pixxels, then progesses to blocky colors and broken lines, until its...

Hey bluemeyer, Before we start I need some more info. Do you have a cd to reinstall windows 95? do you have a rescue disk made for win 95? First step.. Make the rescue disk second step.. since the HD is already formated for win95 you dont have to format it you just have to delete everything...

You could also get another cable and hook up the second drive to the Secondary master if your CD drive is not using it. Be sure to reset the drive Jumpers to master if you try this. If it works there and Lesgray's advice didnt help then you have pretty much narrowed it down to a faulty Primary...

Try deleting the partitions and then reinstalling XP. XP should see the drive exists, partition it, format it in NTFS file system, and then install.

Thank you for all the wonderful help.. However the bios update seemed to do nothing for the problem. And Neither did the numerous attempts to reinstall windows xp and get it to format at 27 gig at the beginning of install. I did get some advise from a friend that told me if the HD had not...

No the format was a single 27 gig partition. XP defaulted to repartitioning and reformating at 8 gig. Yes freestone the drives were already formated but not at 8 gig, at 27. Thanks for the help guys... as of now I am updating the bios on my M830LR motherboard to see if that helps. A microsoft...

XP did default to creating a partition because the HDs were formated already. I created the 8 gig partitions (one on each drive) because that is all that xp would allow. Disk Management now shows 7.86gig partitions on each drive, NTFS file system. However the format and Delete partition menu...

In the bios it detects at 27gig.. I guess I dont need the bios update. right now I dont have any data.. Just a fresh install on a 8gig HD. Good advice... thanks

Ive been a win98 and older user up to this point. I recently installed XP. Both my 27 gig HDs XP detected and partitioned at 8 Gig a piece. XP works great but I need my HD space. I cant even get to a DOS prompt in XP to run fdisk again. In fact I dont even see Fdisk or Format as programs in XP...