Only 8gb of 40g Hd recognized

[ian b]

Do some older boards only recognize up to 8GB harddrive?
thanks in advance
ian

 

[John E. Carty]

Do some older boards only recognize up to 8GB harddrive?
thanks in advance
ian

Unfortunately, yes

 

[Doug Holtz]

Do some older boards only recognize up to 8GB harddrive?
thanks in advance
ian

Yes. I have afew

Doug

 

[Paul H]

yes

Try updating the BIOS
otherwise you'll need, e.g. a PCI slot IDE controller card

 

[Alceryes]

yes

Try updating the BIOS
otherwise you'll need, e.g. a PCI slot IDE controller card

Or...he can use the EZBios disk that came with the hard drive (if he bought
it retail). If not I think you can download it. The EZBios puts a drive
overlay on allowing him to use the full 40GB.

 

[philo]

Or...he can use the EZBios disk that came with the hard drive (if he bought
it retail). If not I think you can download it. The EZBios puts a drive
overlay on allowing him to use the full 40GB.
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EZ Bios is avail from maxtor on their max blast setup disk

 

[DaveW]

Yes.

 

[CBFalconer]

Or...he can use the EZBios disk that came with the hard drive (if
he bought it retail). If not I think you can download it. The
EZBios puts a drive overlay on allowing him to use the full 40GB.

Often a bad idea. The drive becomes unusable in many normal
situations. Better to partition it so that the first 8g holds a
Linux boot partition and let the Linux drivers access the
remainder. That way you can have almost 8 g (should you happen to
want it and its insecurities) for Windoze stuff, and put a real OS
to work in the rest.

You are already lucky enough that your bios does not lock up on
the over 8g initial size report, so you can boot through the
existing bios.

 

[Wayne Morgan]

If your motherboard only accepts an 8GB drive, then don't use the overlay software. It can
cause problems and you won't be able to take full advantage of your nice, new, fast hard
drive. If your board is that old, I doubt that it will run the drive faster than UDMA-33.
Get a PCI add-in card that will run the drive at its full capability. This will handle the
BIOS limitation for you also and be much more stable than the overlay software.