UglyTrick
Sun May 04 21:02:00 PDT 2008
The BIOS most definitely does have limitations on it. The original hard
drive was a 4 Gig. I bought the controller so that I would be able to install
the 40 Gig, but now it only recognizes a little over 2 Gigs. I did press yes
when it was being formatted. It is formatted to 32 bit. I was trying to keep
from reinstalling the OS. I might have to though. I might have to also use
your suggestion of reinstalling the old hard drive. Thanks.
Ugly Trick
"glee" wrote:
> EITHER your BIOS has a limitation on what size hard drive the integrated IDE
> controller can recognise (possible but the visible drive would likely not be only
> 2GB in that case, due to the old drive having been seen at GB);
>
> OR when you partitioned the new 40-GB hard drive with FDISK, you responded NO
> instead of YES when FDISK asked "Do you wish to enable large disk support (Y/N)?"
>
> If you pressed N instead of Y, you set up the drive using FAT16, which will only set
> up the first 2GB of the drive. You would've had to create more partitions 2GB or
> less each, until the entire drive had been set up. There is obviously no reason to
> set it up that way...FAT32 would allow the full size of the disk to be used. Had
> you pressed Y, FAT32 would be used, and the full size of the drive would be
> available for one or more partitions.
>
> The easiest solution might be to replace the 40GB drive with the old 4GB drive
> temporarily, then wipe the 40-GB clean and repartition it with FDISK, and enable
> Large Disk Support; then format and copy the old system to the new drive.
> --
> Glen Ventura, MS MVP Windows, A+
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> > "Ugly Trick" <UglyTrick@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> >>I have an old Compaq computer wit windows 98 SE installed on it. I have a
> >>CD
> >> ROM and a DVD ROM installed on it. The original hard drive was 4
> >> Gigabytes.
> >> I have installed a 40 Gig on it. I want to put a controller on it to plug
> >> the 40 Gig in to.
> >> The hard drive is plugged in to the motherboard at this time. The computer
> >> is not seeing either ROM, and that is the problem. I can't install the
> >> software for the con-
> >> troller because of that. the computer is just seeing a little over 2 Gig
> >> of
> >> the hard drive. Help!
> >>
> >> Ugly Trick
> >
> >
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