[simpits-tech] harddrive problems

[Al West]

It's most likely either:
Incorrect jumper settings on the drive - but usually they ship without any 
capacity limiting options.
Or your BIOS can't handle that size of drive.

Check to see what your BIOS says about the drive - you might have to enable 
LBA and while you are there 32-bit disk access (did you know this is turned 
off by default on so many machines).

Failing that look up the motherboard on the net to see if there are any 
firmware updates for the BIOS.

Cheers,
Al

On Sunday 21 March 2004 05:35, Justin Messenger wrote:
> I just bought a 40 gig drive. I am useing a win 98 SE boot disk and when I
> give it a primary dos partition it shows it as only a 5 gig drive. can Win
> 98 not handle 40 gig?
>
>  Can it be that it is because it is on an old Athlon 650? Or is that evan a
> factor.
>
> Windows installs on the drive but it bites only being able to 5 gig on a 40
> gig drive.
>
> The drive wont show up at all on a k62 350, which is my internet machine
> until I get another motherboard for it.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any ideas.
> Justin
>
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