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From: steve@wintermute.ucsd.edu ({Darkavich})
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: only gets 20 meg from 40 meg drive?
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Date: 7 May 90 15:49:58 GMT
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In article <90125.152853NETOPRDO@ncsuvm.ncsu.edu> NETOPRDO@ncsuvm.ncsu.edu writes:
>One friend says I need a new controller card.  The other friend says
>I can partition it with Disk Manager, Fdisk, or Debug and get 40 meg.
>But I've already tried doing that with no success.  Maybe I did some
>thing wrong.  Who is right? Do I need a new controller card?

Could you tell us more about your computer?
What type of computer and what kind of hardrive and HD controller
More than likely you are just telling the software you have a smaller hard
drive than you do.  But with out knowing what hardware you have, I cann't
help.

Steve Misrack
steve@ucsd.edu