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| Thread ID: 62438 | 2005-10-07 07:17:00 | Flashing Bios to be able to use all of 80gig HDD | shroeder (6761) | Press F1 |
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| 394192 | 2005-10-07 07:17:00 | Hi again I am shortly going to flash my bios (GULP) so the full 80gig of my HDD will be recognised. When I put the 80gig in a put a jumper on so the moboard would recognise the allowable 32gig. I am running XP on a PIII 500. My question is, that assuming all goes well with the bios (GULP again) what do I have to do for the full 80gig to be seen - obviously I need to take off the jumper and I'm sure I will have to use an extra partition to use it as I don't want to have to reload the operating system and I don't have partition magic or anything. But I suspect there is a little more to all of this? Your wisdom and guidance is much needed and appreciated :D |
shroeder (6761) | ||
| 394193 | 2005-10-07 07:31:00 | You could format it in NTFS, it'll recognise most of the hdd, or partition it in the setup screen, when u go to install XP on it. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 394194 | 2005-10-07 07:31:00 | First, don't be scared of flashing the BIOS, its easy. I have done 2, so no; I am not a seasoned pro. Its a simple case of follow these rules... Make a boot disk (98 is a good one to make and hang onto), make sure you know the manufacturer of your current BIOS and up date with same brand (Phoenix, AMI etc). Read the BIOS instructions thoroughly. Most important, once the BIOS has started updating, don't stop it. It will let you know when it wants input and when to reboot. When its done and you have rebooted, you should just need to make a new partition. |
Myth (110) | ||
| 394195 | 2005-10-07 09:55:00 | Hi again I am shortly going to flash my bios (GULP) so the full 80gig of my HDD will be recognised. When I put the 80gig in a put a jumper on so the moboard would recognise the allowable 32gig. I am running XP on a PIII 500. How do you know it isn't seeing it already? Its not that old a PC that I would have expected it to have a problem.... But, download the latest BIOS from your motherboard manufacturers website. The one specifically for your model and revision of motherboard. They provide the flashing utility too. The boot disk is the best idea. Boot off it, then from the command promt you run the utility along the lines of awdflash and then the name of the BIOS update like 18nsd013 so: awdflash a8nsd013.bin And it does it. You might get the choice to back up the old one first - a good idea if it lets you. MAke sure no-one is likely to turn the power off during its update. Only takes a few seconds though. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 394196 | 2005-10-07 10:26:00 | Well no mention of the make of mobo or HD so help is a little trickie. But what happens when you remove the jumper that limits it to 32G |
Rob99 (151) | ||
| 394197 | 2005-10-07 10:57:00 | Well no mention of the make of mobo or HD so help is a little trickie. But what happens when you remove the jumper that limits it to 32G Yesssss please. Give some more information. Flashing your BIOS or reformatting in a format that may not be appropriate, or even vaialbale to you, is the last things you should be considering. It can go all dreadfully wrong, do you want that, are you prepared for that, potentially, do you want to spend money on that? OS, motherboard, general spec's and how is your system currently configured. Only, if no solution can be found, and there is a BIOS available that adresses the precise problem, should you then contemplatye FLASHING YOUR BIOS. I apologise for speaking loudly, but, this comes up as the panacea for all ills. all too often. diagnose, find options, re-diagnose if necessary (repeat as necessary) try from the least risky onwards, ask, reseach at each step. Don't kill your system unnecessarilly. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 394198 | 2005-10-07 17:27:00 | it's totally unnecessary to goto that extreme and possibly damage yoru pc.....you DONT NEED TO FLASH THE BIOS. Just goto the harddrive makers website there you'll almost certainly find freely downloadable software to 'trick' your pc into accepting a larger harddrive than the bios will normally handle......it's very easy, and no risk, and free. generically called DDO, for Dynamic Drive Overlay software and it works simply and well. | drcspy (146) | ||
| 394199 | 2005-10-08 07:25:00 | Why bother with software that tricks the system into thinking whatever . I fixed an HP once, and the thing would crash, without the BIOS update . After, I had reinstalled 2k on it . The limit of the BIOS was 8 GB I think it was . The hdd in the system was only 8 GB . Once the BIOS had been updated it worked fine . It may actually fix something else, apart from the 8 gb or 10 gb limit, or whatever the prob is . Its kinda like ppl not wanting to update to SP2 . Its not that they dont want to, its coz most of them cant be bothered scanning for spyware / checking what has to be done, before SP2 can be installed . And if you've got spyware etc, then you'll definitely have probs with SP2 . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
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