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Need help with laptop

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jiffy007

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I have an old Zeos Meridian 800 series laptop: 486DX4-100 processor, 20mb RAM, 540mb hard drive
The problem is, the system only recognizes 12mb of the hard drive, though when I check the BIOS, it reads the correct drive size. What's going on? And what can I do to fix it? I think my friend, whom I lent the laptop to, might have compressed the hard drive or something along those lines, but I'm not sure. Can anyone help? Thx
 
If you need nothing off the drive... FDISK! Delete all the partitions and reinstall them.... JUST REMEMBER YOU WILL LOSE EVERYTHING INCLUDING THE O/S!!!
 
FDISK will show you the existing partitions, maybe more than 1. Some laptops used a HDD partition to suspend main memory to.
 
I tried FDISK several times, and still nothing. This is what led me to believe the drive might be compressed. Or, I suppose it's possibility that the drive is just corrupted with bad sectors? Dunno...any other suggestions?
 
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