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Check your CMOS settings and make sure the hard drive settings have not changed. It is probably being autodetected. However, because you were changing the RAM, you may have changed/saved CMOS settings.

For some reason, you computer may be detecting the drive as a 2 gig....

Hope this helps. Email me if you need to.

Steve Cody
scody@gulbrandsen.com

I hate to bring this up, but have you checked the integrity of this motherboard?

You have two different systems malfunctioning. It would make sense to me to subtitute a known good motherboard of the exact same make and model and see what happens.

(I know this seems expensive. Buy the board, then return it if your condition persists despite the swap.)

jeff s
spanish helpdesk specialist

I agree with the suggestion to verify the drive geometry in the CMOS. I'm also assuming that this drive wasn't installed with any software BIOS extensions so that the motherboard could see the whole thing.

If the CMOS drive geometry is correct, then
the findings in Fdisk are really worrisome and the only tool I've ever used successfully to recover a lost partition is Hard Drive Mechanic. It hasn't worked with every case but depending on the value of the data on that partition, it might beworth trying.

I know this doesn't paint a rosy scenario but that's 'cuz it isn't. If you had backups, you're now at the point that you would be using them.

Good luck!

paul

Paul M. Wright, Jr.
McKay Technologies

get "easy recovery" or "Tiramisu" from www.ontrack.de
This program can do more for you.