Hi emeck,
I had the very same problem with my 1200. Here's
what I did.
HD Toolbox was not reading/interpreting the
information from the drive properly, so my first
step was to manually enter the proper information
into HD Toolbox (this info should hopefully be
printed on the outside of the drive). After this,
you may partition your drive accordingly, save
changes and re - format your partitions.
Also, I very strongly urge you to use an alternative
file system in conjunction with this method, such as
PFS 3. The direct-scsi filesystem version of PFS 3
works excellent on the built in IDE of the 1200.
This will ensure that no information will be lost
when using the upper portions (over 4gb) of the
drive. Using FFS may require other methods to
insure the safety of your information when writing
above the 4gb mark on big drives.
Obviously, it would be best to format and partition
your new drive from whatever OS (3.5?) is on your old
drive, before it's completely dead. Then it's a real
pain.
Since you are using the built in IDE of the 1200,
there are no GURU roms or anything to worry about
hardware - wise.
You may want to research this topic a bit, this
was only my method; there are others. This setup
works excellent for my 1200, and PFS 3 is a great
addition regardless, since it speeds disk access
and lacks the validation problems of FFS.
