Posted by Keith McCormick on January 19, 19101 at 08:59:10:
In Reply to: Old computer , new hard drive posted by Keith McCormick on January 18, 19101 at 11:18:58:
Dan thanks but I got it .
the bios would not take a drive larger than 504
Megs . So it kept trying to format the drive to 504 megs . I found a program from download.com to
format and intall system files on the hard drive to bypass this problem . Worked great . and thank you for you info .
Keith
: I am trying to help a Lady with her old Compaq 486 computer . Her hard
: drive is bad and I have a WD 1.6 Gig she can have . But the computer
: wants to format it at 550 Megs . I know this can be fixed but I have not helped on such an old computer before . Thank you . Keith