Hard Drive/Bios Problem

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Foze.Bear, Nov 7, 2006.

  1. Foze.Bear

    Foze.Bear Private E-2

    Got an old P2 350Mhz with an award P6Bx-Me. Can't find a .bin that will actually allow a 40 Gig drive to be recognized. I don't want to spend any cash, but...


    Any ideas. ECS web site has 2 .bins and neither addresses the problem.

    Foz E. Bear
     
    Foze.Bear, Nov 7, 2006
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  2. Novice

    Novice MajorGeek

    If the bios won't recognize the drive, then you could boot off a Win98 bootdisk, and run fdisk, partition the drive into sizes that the bios will recognize, and format one for the OS. The other option would be to use the utilities that the hard drive manufacture provides ( bios overlay ) usually included on a floppy disk with the hard drive.:)
     
    Novice, Nov 7, 2006
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  3. Foze.Bear

    Foze.Bear Private E-2

    Well, I was trying to install Freespire, and it would NOT work because it gives you no choices on partitions. (or at least not that many) Windows never has that problem, since it marks "system" attributes in NTFS and FAT to be kept in the first sectors of the HD. But EXT3, no such thing. I just installed Fedora instead. Works fine with a 100Mg \boot part
     
    Foze.Bear, Nov 10, 2006
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