-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Finding disk space
- From: Jim <n1jmm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 19:26:46 -0400
Denise, if your motherboard / BIOS is old then it will need some help to "see"
the whole drive.
There are 2 ways to do this:
1 - Normally the drive comes with the DDO (Dynamic Drive Overlay) software and
it sounds like in your case that it was not installed and/or configured
properly. You could install it but you should back up whatever is on the drive
that you need to keep
first because you will need to partition and format the drive afterward. If you
didn't get it go to IBM's website and download it. While your there get the
doc's too and PRINT them.
2 - This option may be more appealing, but is usually slightly more expensive,
but, in my eyes a much better method. Obtain (order, or get from local store) a
Promise Technologies 133mb IDE drive controller, pick the model that's
appropriate for your
motherboards card slots. This controller will have it's own NEW - BIOS built on
it and will handle drives with capacities much larger then currently available.
The nice thing here is this controller is very fast and there is NO need for
the DDO software.
The controller should be available for around $12 to say $45, depending on the
model you need. I actually have one in this machine, it was part of the Maxtor
drive kit. Very fast. You might double check with IBM, they might have a
suitable controller
available at a reasonable cost. Note: You will need to re-partition and format
with this method also.
Method 2 will yield faster drive throughput and is really the better way to go.
Just make sure there is NO DDO software installed on the drive. In some
situations you might get away without having to re-partition and format the
drive but they would be rare
and possibly everything may look good until you or a program went to write to
the higher areas of the drive and then things might get corrupted thus I always
recommend partitioning and formatting and installing everything from scratch
whenever a drives
controller / BIOS is changed. Method 1 is the least expensive and could
possibly be implemented immediately and is a satisfactory method for most users.
Good Luck
-Jim-
ds wrote:
>
> This is an old problem, which I had to put aside until now. I had a 60
> Gb hard drive put on an older computer (circa 1998) by the PC hardware
> department at the school I go to. They had trouble getting my computer
> to recognize the drive and I don't know what was finally done to make it
> work. Originally, there were two drives on the computer. I took one off
> and now there is only the 60 Gb. But it only sees 30 Gb. I'd like to get
> it to see the entire drive.
>
> I thought perhaps there was some type of drive overlay on it that needed
> to be removed; however, Master Netlord suggested that I put Partition
> Magic on it and try something from there. So I finally put Partition
> Magic on it and am wondering what steps to take from there. Partition
> Magic also sees only the 30 Gb. This is an IBM Deskstar drive.
>
> Where do I go from here?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Denise
>
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