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Adam
I have an Excelstor 20GB hard-drive which I put in an old PC. It is now only
7.82 GB. Is there anyway I can 'fix it'?
Cheers
7.82 GB. Is there anyway I can 'fix it'?
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Russell
You'll need one of the following: an updated BIOS for your old motherboard
that supports larger drives, drive overlay software supplied by the hard
drive manufacturer, or a PCI card IDE controller from someone like Promise
that would come with it's own BIOS for larger drive support. You'll also
need to be running an operating system that supports larger hard drives, of
course.
Hope this helps,
Russell
http://tastycomputers.com
that supports larger drives, drive overlay software supplied by the hard
drive manufacturer, or a PCI card IDE controller from someone like Promise
that would come with it's own BIOS for larger drive support. You'll also
need to be running an operating system that supports larger hard drives, of
course.
Hope this helps,
Russell
http://tastycomputers.com
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Jan Alter
Possibly.
To expound; because the mb is old its bios can natively only see drives
up to a nominal 8 gigs. There are ways to get the whole drive seen though.
First find out the exact model mb you have and go to the maker to see if it
has a newer bios for your mb. If so you could download the bios free and
flash (upgrade) the bios and that possibly would allow the mb to see the
entire drive.
If this can't be done one could purchase a controller interface card
(popular maker is Promise) to connect the hdd to when installed and this
would let the mb see the whole drive.
Third, one could use overlay software that is usually available from the
hdd maker (free) that gets installed on the hdd so that the mb can see the
entire size of the drive and thus the OS as well. Lots of folks criticize
the overlay software because in early years of its use it led to more
problems than it was worth. I've used it and had some problems with some
drives and none with others. Actually the software worked on one drive
beautifully for more than five years without a hitch (an old 486 machine).
To expound; because the mb is old its bios can natively only see drives
up to a nominal 8 gigs. There are ways to get the whole drive seen though.
First find out the exact model mb you have and go to the maker to see if it
has a newer bios for your mb. If so you could download the bios free and
flash (upgrade) the bios and that possibly would allow the mb to see the
entire drive.
If this can't be done one could purchase a controller interface card
(popular maker is Promise) to connect the hdd to when installed and this
would let the mb see the whole drive.
Third, one could use overlay software that is usually available from the
hdd maker (free) that gets installed on the hdd so that the mb can see the
entire size of the drive and thus the OS as well. Lots of folks criticize
the overlay software because in early years of its use it led to more
problems than it was worth. I've used it and had some problems with some
drives and none with others. Actually the software worked on one drive
beautifully for more than five years without a hitch (an old 486 machine).
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Adam
When I put it back in my PC it is recognised by the BIOS as 20GB but again
once I get to windows it is back to 7.82GB
once I get to windows it is back to 7.82GB
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Norm
Run Fdisk and delete the existing partition and create one that's the full
size of the disk. Windows looks at partition sizes not disk sizes.
size of the disk. Windows looks at partition sizes not disk sizes.
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Adam
Thanks for all the emails/replies.
I managed to rectify the problem by using disk manager in win2000.
Unfortunately I am now having problems with floppy (80)
I managed to rectify the problem by using disk manager in win2000.
Unfortunately I am now having problems with floppy (80)
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DaveW
You need an updated BIOS, which may not be available.