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Name: Frik Engels
Date: June 12, 2001 at 09:58:34 Pacific
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I'm sorry to be a bother but I was wondering if you could steer me in the right direction.

I have a 486 Dx100 AMD computer and bought a Quantum fireball (I think SE model) 13 GB

The hard disk controller card is an old one ( PT606 -Pine )

The computer dont see my hard disk although the bios (AMI) has an lba mode and a self detect option. It just give me a ( HDD controller error)


I am in Windhoek (Namibia) Africa.


Kind regards


Frik Engels



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Response Number 1
Name: NT
Date: June 12, 2001 at 11:56:06 Pacific
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you know the clip that you set the hardrive as master or slave remove it all together and see if that will help


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Response Number 2
Name: xb
Date: June 12, 2001 at 13:19:41 Pacific
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1. go to support page of your HD manufaturer's website then search for DDO software (dynamic drive overlay). download it then install. this is usually used as a bootdisk. use this software to fdisk/format your drive. after that your pc will see your hd then you can install OS.

- or -

2. get a newer IDE controller. if you still can.


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Response Number 3
Name: TechGUY
Date: June 12, 2001 at 13:58:05 Pacific
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There is a 8.4MB limitation on older systems that is stoping your controller from seeing your 13GB harddrive! What you need is a disk overlay program such as ontrack. goto www.windrivers.com/company.htm and download the quantum version. Remember also that there is also a 2.1GB limitation on MS-DOS 6.22 or older versions of DOS.

Good Luck


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Response Number 4
Name:
Date: June 13, 2001 at 01:41:55 Pacific
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turn your computer off unplug your harddrive
leave it unpluged and boot your computer with a ms dos 6.22 bootdisk if you don't have one you can get one from http://www.bootdisk.com
after your computer boots up from the disk
turn it off wait about ten seconds and then
plug your harddrive back in and then turn your computer back on. this shoud fix it.


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Response Number 5
Name: Anonymous
Date: June 13, 2001 at 07:41:29 Pacific
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And what the hell will that do? Nothing!


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Response Number 6
Name: phil
Date: June 13, 2001 at 08:26:06 Pacific
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TechGUY has the right answer here......


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Response Number 7
Name: Lodewicus Maas
Date: August 15, 2001 at 03:39:20 Pacific
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I Have a 166Mhx Pentium machine with a 30Gb Hard disk where the Bios only limits me to see it as a 8Gb Drive. The only Way I could manage to use all 30Gb is by using Win NT / Win 2000.

Create a 2 Gb boot partition and install NT on there. After NT starts up successfully, you can format the other 28GB as a NTFS partition from the Administration Tools. It seems that NT/2000 'overrides' the BIOS limitations.

OR

Boot up with a Windows2000 cd and let the 2000 installer format it as one 30Gb partition

I have done it various time on my PC and this works. I could'nt get it to work with 98 or ME.

Hope this Helps

Wicus


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