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installing hard drive
Name: steveman Date: April 11, 2003 at 18:04:42 Pacific OS: win 98 CPU/Ram: ast bravo 200mmx/128 meg
Comment:
have a 20 gig hard drive. problem is my cmos settings go to a maximum of 1024 cylinders. the 20 gig has 16383. hard drive is a fujitsu mpg3204at. any help would be appreciated...
Name: luke Date: April 11, 2003 at 18:20:17 Pacific
Reply:
You can download an 'overlay' program from the hard drive manufacturer's web site. It will overcome the bios's limitation.
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Response Number 2
Name: Krystyna Date: April 11, 2003 at 18:20:47 Pacific
Reply:
In the BIOS, what setting is the hard drive on ? Normal, Large or LBA ? If you run the Hard Disk Detection utility, and choose LBA mode, you should get at least 8 gigs of the new drive recognised. Probably you will then need the disk overlay program from Fujitsu, to have the entire 20 gig recognised ( the PC is not likely to be new enough to see 20 gig hard drives )
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