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46652	2002-05-01 12:15:00	Here's something strange. Some time ago I posted a query about large HDD's and Bios. O/S NT4 server. Bought a new Maxtor 40gb drive for BDC to replace 20Gb nearly full. Bios would only see 8gb of the new drive. Tried all alternatives of installing and finally concluded Bios needed upgrade. Just as a doodle popped the HDD in another machine and formatted full 39Gb NTFS. Popped it back in the server to see what happened. Bios refused to see any HDD at all!! ie no secondary master.(Have 2 other HDD's in the machine) Let it boot and had a look in explorer and whatdoyouknow, -there was the full 39gb E:\. Windisk let me reallocate the drive letter and it has been running for a month with no hassels!! I'm of the school that 'if it works -let it' but would appreciate any comments. regards Don	Guest (0)
46653	2002-05-02 04:57:00	I suppose that the only disk the BIOS needs to know about is the boot device. That's the only one it needs. Windows, and Linux (and any other OS) can find any others without looking at the CMOS RAM. Did you by accident make it bootable when you had it on the other machine? The BIOS would probably 'dislike' having two bootable devices, and might just ignore the second one, in the hope that it would go away. Who said computers are predictable? They use software. And people write software.	Guest (0)
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