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Hi Jeff,
I thought that maybe you are no longer following the old thread but might see this new one. I posted a reply to yours (copied below) that perhaps you cna answer. One thing I don't understand is why you believe that my system can accept an 80G c: hard drive, while Hugh states that a controller card would be necessary. Thanks! Eric On Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:57:56 +1100, "Jeff Richards" wrote: There's no reason to suspect your BIOS as the problem. In fact, if FDISK is seeing 10Gb for a 80Gb drive then that almost certainly means that the BIOS sees the drive correctly and it's the wrong version of FDISK. If the BIOS could only handle a 30Gb drive then FDISK would also see it as 30Gb. Hi Jeff. Thanks for this info. It sounds very promising. I've plugged in a 40+ HD in the past and it wasn't recognized. I'm not sure if I need to manually input the heads/cylinders for it to be recognized or just leave it on AUTO recognition. I will take the time to open up the case and swap my 30G HD to the 80G that I now have if you are fairly certain that it will work and eventually be seen as an 80G HD. That would be great if it worked! Eric |
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