-=PCTechTalk=- - Re: Hard Disk...AGAIN!!!
- From: "andy" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 13:09:29 +0100
----- Original Message -----
From: "keith" <kword88@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 12:11 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Hard Disk...AGAIN!!!
>
> Have you checked for a BIOS update? Or did the drive come with "drive
> overlay software" ? Is it possible to manually input the drive
> parameters in the BIOS ?
The bios is showing the correct size, so thats not where the problem lies,
it's when I try to fdisk and set the partitions that the size is showing
wrong (12993mb instead of 82.3gb) The motherboard is only a couple of
months old anyway, and it is ATA33/66/100 compatible.
ANYWAY.....I have a bit of success
The drive itself came with absolutely no software (It's an IBM Deskstar 120
gxp 82.3gb) but I have downloaded the disk manager software from their
website . With that, the size is showing as 76gb!!! I've used that to
partition and format into the sizes that I want and all seems well now, even
though I am 6 gb short of the size advertised..quite why, I don't know!!
Now, the next bit will come when I try to use Drive Copy to move my o/s..I
hope that goes smoother, but somehow, I doubt it!!!
One other question..when I was setting up the hard drive on the IBM disc
manager, I noticed it asked whether I was going to be using the partition as
storage or for an o/s-any idea why it asked this? I thought as long as a
partition was formatted ok, it could be used for anything?
Cheers
Andy
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:pctechtalk-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of andy
> Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 7:06 AM
> To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Hard Disk...AGAIN!!!
>
>
>
> Lets start afresh with this problem..Here's what I've done/tried so far
>
> IBM 82.3gb hard drive
>
> Installed as master hard drive and only hard drive (Other h/d unplugged)
>
> Booted into BIOS, re-set the master and it identified it correctly as
> 82.3gb-also changed the slave to 'not installed'
>
> Restarted with boot disc
>
> Got to the a> prompt-typed in fdisk
>
> went to set a primary partition
>
> the integrity check went ok
>
> total disk space shows as 12993 mb!!!!
>
> Anyone ANY ideas what is going on? I'm really at my wits-end with this
> now
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
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