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AlanParkinson Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 3. "RE: Fatal harddrive crash" 10-06-02, 22:58z  Hi Guido, Sorry to hear of your drive problems - they always occur at the worst moment. > I have done a BIOS update, but it says it > supports only up to 75 GB and my new HD is a 80 GB. While it works quite > well with Linux with its full size (maybe it bypasses the BIOS), the > Windows fdisk treats it as 10 GB drive > > So it seems, I will have to spend another 50 bucks on a new additional > PCI Ultra-DMA100 Controller with its own BIOS which is able to handle > the drive. Before you spend any more money, this sounds very much like a problem with Windows, which can be fixed with a simple (free) download. If you're running Windows 98 or 95, fdisk cannot recognise drives larger than 64GB. If you put in a drive greater than this size, fdisk reports it as the DIFFERENCE in size, that is, if you fit a 74 GB drive fdisk will see it as 74-64GB or 10GB. This looks very close to the figures you gave, so that could be the real cause not the bios. Take a look at the Microsoft knowledge base article: "Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Hard Disks Larger than 64 GB (Q263044)" You can try downloading a new version of fdisk that works correctly with large drives. Alan **** VPC OffLine Reader Version 1.0.0.0 **** ++++ UNREGISTERED ++++ **** OLR.PL Build 1.73 **** Remove | Alert Edit | Reply | Reply With Quote | Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-06-02              RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Ben_Chiu       10-06-02       1            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       7                 RE: Fatal harddrive crash    RobertVA       10-12-02       12                      RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Mike_Greenwood       10-13-02       13         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    vgbaron       10-06-02       2            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       9         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    AlanParkinson       10-06-02       3            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    TD       10-07-02       5                 RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       8            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       6         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    jerryrosie       10-07-02       4            RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       10         RE: Fatal harddrive crash    Guido_Ostkamp       10-12-02       11

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