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ahhh need help quick.. guy leaving to arizona tommorow need help fixing this comp before then!!!!

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TimidOCer

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ok its an old really lame compaq presario 4528 and the guy just wanted a bigger hard drive and a reformat .. sooooo got a 20 gig drive and having me do the rest.. Thing is its only recognizing it as a 2gb(original size) now I didnt do the reformat part someone else did and installed windows and they couldnt do the rest (WTF) so I have to take over. So anyway its like missing some stupid drivers cause its a compaq and windows doesnt have em.. So I dont know what ill do about drivers and the hard drive is.. well acting like its the original!

Help me please this is a pain in the ass and I just want an easy way to do this instead of screwing with it for a couple hours!
 
First of all, to get into the BIOS for most of these computers, try either F1, F2, or DEL. If that doesn't work, just try every F button on top until you find it.

Secondly, go to the Compaq website to look for BIOS updates for that computer. I would think since it is an old computer, the motherboard might have trouble reading large size hard drives. Give that a try and see if that helps!
 
Compaq has the button F10 to get into the bios.

If you are going to use one os after the one that came with the computer, most if not all drivers are included with the os.
 
first of all what OS are you running??? I remember old win95 would only except or create max 2.1 gig drives...
 
The only thing I can think of is they hosed the format process or accidently created a partition and did not format the second part...

Just reformat with the win98 se bootup disk or cd-rom and reinstall yourself...Don't trust others work...
 
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