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5. "RE: Fatal harddrive crash"
10-07-02, 20:21z
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I immediately went into town to buy a new one, but unfortunately my system is from 1999, and well, you guess it, as always hardware things have changed quite a bit since then. I had to learn that my BIOS is unable to deal with the large harddisks we have today (I had a 10GB and a 20GB, the latter went mad). 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 When I got my first Western Digital 10 gigs, the BIOS on my P166 was unable to recognize anything larger than an 8 gig. Fortunately, there was a utility included that let me install the 10 gig, and allowed me to partition it into two 5 gig drives. Both work just fine. The software evidently bypasses the BIOS on the motherboard, you might check the WD website too. "TD - Virtual FAA investigators are on line 2, AGAIN!!! "
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