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Thread ID: 9679	2001-06-10 06:01:00	Large hard drive on older machine	Guest (0)	Press F1

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13912	2001-06-10 06:01:00	On behalf of Poppa 3 Disk Drives and a Bios. My new 10 GB Seadgate (drive D) was installed by the vendor using the USER option. and it worked fine. After a while I decided to partition it. Fdisk showed the capacity as 504 MB. It was replaced under warranty by an 8GB Seagate, but when I went back, the vendor opted to refund the money instead as he couldnt set up the new drive. I got the same result using FDisk from my friend. A different dealer supplied another Seagate 8 MB, and managed to format the drive using another computer, but didnt partition it as asked. It worked OK as USER showing a 8 GigaB drive under 'my computer'. I backed up my Fuji drive on to it. Fdisk showed the drive size as 504 MB again, and usage as 4GB !!!! I then tried to install Linux. Patition Magic showed 3.7 GB available, but then installation failed because the disk was only 504MB again. I decided to keep the Seagate for Windows and put Linux on the old 4GB Fujitsu C Drive, (which sets up OK under auto). A friend formatted the Seagate for me again to 8 GB. I then installed Windows 95 from my CD successfully, but the size once again is 504Mb. My Bios recognises my Fujitsu C Drive no problem. I did set 'recognise large drives' under FDISK, and also used Scandisk and DeFrag each time. I dont accept that 3 HD's would all show the same fault. Fortunately all my files are intact on C Drive. I fear my bios is faulty some way. Can you suggest a fix for me please? I beleive one can check the bios, and even print it out but I dont know how to go about it. My Bios is American Megatrends 51-0826-00123-00111111-071595-82430VX-F Pentium 133 40 Mb ram running Windows 95	Guest (0)
13913	2001-06-10 07:13:00	Hello Elaine To fix your problem go to >> www.seagate.com and download their Diskmanager software,one of the many things this utility does is allow older bioses to see the full capacity of large drives,it does this by loading some software prior to boot up and works perfectly. You can also partition your drive easily with this utility and it hand holds you the whole way. Finally I'm always amazed by the amount of hardware vendors and so called techs who don't know how to get over a common PC problem such as this. Alan	Guest (0)
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