EZ-BIOS/ recognize full 30gigs

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Rooster, May 11, 2005.

  1. Rooster

    Rooster Private E-2

    P2 233 160 mb ram, 30gig Western Digital HD.
    I have finally wiped my hard drive clean (with the help from the message board) and began to re-install Win98SE. I must have changed something in the EZ-BIOS. It says Type "Auto", Cylinders"16383", Heads "16", Sectors "63" and max capacity 8455mb. I thought that was strange but went on to install Win98SE. After installation, I examined the hard drive and I only see 8.4 gigs of 30gig HD. I went through this before with success. I just can't figure out how to set the BIOS to recognize the full 30gigs.
    Any suggestions?

    Doug
     
    Rooster, May 11, 2005
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  2. Shadow_Puter_Dude

    Shadow_Puter_Dude MG Authorized Malware Fighter

    Repartition the drive. Don't use EZ-BIOS, it is unneeded. Win98SE can use the entire drive without using EZ-BIOS.
     
    Shadow_Puter_Dude, May 11, 2005
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  3. InYearsToCome

    InYearsToCome MajorGeek

    with windows 98SE you shold be using Fdisk and Format to partition and format your whole drive, enabling large disk suppport--OR run a hard drive manufacturers disk tools that allow you to format.
     
    InYearsToCome, May 11, 2005
    #3

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