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Re: [TCLUG:1638] old bios, new hard disk



What is sounds like to me is a BIOS translation problem.  Check your BIOS
and see if there is a translations setting and make sure to set that to
'LBA' if it isn't set to LBA Windows/DOS cannot access anything above 528MB.

At 11:36 AM 10/6/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>Well, I'm back to world of the living. Mid-quarter reports were due today,
>and I was up until 3am finishing grades. Now I can return to getting my
>computers working.
>
>I finally got the misc. parts that I had ordered to finish assembling some
>Pentium systems. The first one I put together is a P-90. I put in 64 MB
>RAM, ethernet, ATI video card, and a new 4.3 GB hard disk. I entered the
>BIOS and put the number of cylinders, sectors, etc. and it seemed like the
>BIOS was OK--it reported that the disk was the correct size.
>
>These machines will be dual-boot with Win95 so I tried to partition the HD
>so I could install Windows. The Windows 95 fdisk program won't recognize
>the disk correctly. It thinks it's 430 MB (or something like that).
>
>Is this a BIOS or Windows problem. BTW, the Linux Disk Druid correctly
>reports the size of the hard disk. That makes me think it's a Windows
>problem. If so, what's the fix?
>
>-Tim
>
>--
>Timothy D. Wilson			"A little song, a little dance,
>University of MN, chem. dept.		a little seltzer down your 
>wilson@chem.umn.edu			pants."   -Chuckles the Clown
>Phone: (612) 625-9828                       as eulogized by Ted Baxter
>
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