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Very briefly:
The way harddisks are addressed changed over time. Originally, you'd specify cylinder/head/sector (CHS), then it switched to logical block addresses (LBA), and the commands for those went through various versions with an increasing number of bits. As you can read on Wikipedia, LBA first used 22 bits, then 28, then 48.
So you need to distinguish ...
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That BIOS screen clearly says that it detects the drive as roughly 8 GB. The parameters say 16383/16/63 as so this BIOS cannot detect or provide the extended disk services that would allow the drive to be used beyond the 16383 cylinders, or the 8GB limit.
It does not matter if another program can detect the size properly by communicating with the drive ...
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