Re: 200G Hard Drive
- From: "AJR" <ajrjdr@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:56:56 -0400
In the past an "overlay" utility provided by the HD manufacturer provided
for access to large HDs - usually included with the installation disk..
"John Wunderlich" <jwunderlich@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Xns97FE83298C8FBwunderpsdrscraytheon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<JoJo> wrote in news:OOLVY2VpGHA.4236@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
Folks:
Recently bought a 200G hard drive and slapped it into an older
machine. This older machine can only recognize 36 G of the HD.
* How can I force this older machine to recognize the entire
200 G capacity of the hard drive ?
Someone suggested that I use some sort of controller card.
Is this true & if so explain briefly how the controller card
solves the problem?
This sounds like you are hitting the 33.8 GB Limit discussed in:
"History of BIOS and IDE limits"
<http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-4.html>
and also
<http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/mbr/Limits.htm>
The preferred solution is to upgrade your BIOS. Go to the
manufacture's web site of your motherboard and look for a BIOS
upgrade. Some older machines cannot upgrade the BIOS.
A controller card could work so long as you are not booting from
this drive. A controller card would have its own driver that would
work under Windows and circumvent this problem -- however, your
machine boots under BIOS so a controller card will probably only
help once your system is booted and Windows can take over.
HTH,
John
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