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help..hard drive troubles
Name: Andy Date: October 29, 2001 at 15:20:06 Pacific
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ok i got a new harddrive thats 40gb... but i installed it and it says its 8gb. i got partition magic and tried to delete everything and reformat/partition/etc... no luck its 8gb. can anyone help me recover my space i payed for.
Name: Kris Date: October 29, 2001 at 15:27:45 Pacific
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I would say that you have set it wrong in the BIOS or it auto dtected wrong. Reboot press del to view your bios config. Go to intergrated peripherials and change your hdd to the correct size.
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Response Number 2
Name: Andy Date: October 29, 2001 at 15:40:23 Pacific
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i pressed every key imaginable... bios wont load... im screwed!
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Response Number 3
Name: jeromy Date: October 29, 2001 at 16:22:17 Pacific
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it sounds like your mb doesn't support drives over 8 gigs go to the drive maker's site & d/l their disk managment program maxtor for example has a prog called maxblast which will override the bios & let u use the whole hdd
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Response Number 4
Name: Dave357 Date: October 29, 2001 at 16:22:43 Pacific
It may help answer some of your questions. Also, when I installed a 10 GB HD in my computer, I had the same problem. I can't find the info right now, but at the time I was told that it had to do with a limitation of the Win98 fdisk. I downloaded a Win ME bootdisk at bootdisk.com and used it to fdisk the HD. The entire 10 GB was then recognized. I then switched back to the Win98 bootdisk to format, sys, and install Windows, all without a problem.
Hope this helps.
Dave
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Response Number 5
Name: Bonnie Date: October 29, 2001 at 16:23:35 Pacific
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try these during boot f1 f2 esc del ctrl+alt+esc ctrl+alt+ins ctrl+alt+enter ctrl+alt+s page up page down
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Response Number 6
Name: wes Date: October 29, 2001 at 16:41:59 Pacific
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Jeromy's answer was the correct one.
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Response Number 7
Name: tinkerbong Date: October 29, 2001 at 17:06:17 Pacific
Name: Andy Date: October 29, 2001 at 17:44:00 Pacific
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thanks for the help guys but maxblast isnt working! i run it to create the disk and it says drive a controlelr failed... but my a is fine so im not sure what it means
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Response Number 9
Name: Dan Penny Date: October 29, 2001 at 21:49:07 Pacific
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jeromy's statement of Maxblast was an example. If your hard drive isn't a Maxtor, you should ~try~ to obtain the equivelant(sp?) program/Bios overlay from the manufacturer of the drive you have.
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