Its an older computer, and I'm putting a used 2gb drive in it. The bios detects the drive correctly, but when trying to run FDISK it says it cannot find the fixed disk.<P>Any ...
Without getting into "what about this . . . or . . . can you do that . . " Get hold of the HDD mfgr's disk utility suite. Wipe/write 0's to the disk. Then do fdisk - you should meet success.
Overview In this Linux tip, we take a look at the fdisk -l command that provides lots of details on disk partition tables.
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