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Medion hard drive
A Medion laptop (four years old) will not see the full 40 gbs Hitachi
hard drive just installed. It sees 8gb only. There is no bios update available from Medion and Hitachi can offer no help. Am I stuffed? |
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"JnJ" wrote in message
t... A Medion laptop (four years old) will not see the full 40 gbs Hitachi hard drive just installed. It sees 8gb only. There is no bios update available from Medion and Hitachi can offer no help. Am I stuffed? Is it the BIOS or FDISK that's reporting 8GB? If it's FDISK, don't worry about it, and partition by % rather than by MB. |
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-- DaveW "JnJ" wrote in message t... A Medion laptop (four years old) will not see the full 40 gbs Hitachi hard drive just installed. It sees 8gb only. There is no bios update available from Medion and Hitachi can offer no help. Am I stuffed? |
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A Medion laptop (four years old) will not see the full 40 gbs Hitachi hard drive just installed. It sees 8gb only. There is no bios update available from Medion and Hitachi can offer no help. Am I stuffed? Most drive makers offer a BIOS overlay for this purpose. (EZBios is one; I don't know what Hitachi calls theirs, but I'd bet they have one!) This replaces the original MBR with one which directs the boot-up to a new BIOS, usually in sectors 3-17. After loading the BIOS, it reverts to the original MBR, which may have been copied to sector 2. I don't usually advise using this kind of set-up, but if there is no BIOS up-grade available, it's one way to use a larger drive. Check again with Hitachi. Virg Wall -- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,........ Ralph Waldo Emerson (Microsoft programmer's manual.) |
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Hash: SHA1 JnJ wrote: A Medion laptop (four years old) will not see the full 40 gbs Hitachi hard drive just installed. It sees 8gb only. There is no bios update available from Medion and Hitachi can offer no help. Am I stuffed? You might consider the DiskManager DDO software from OnTrack: http://buyonline.ontrack.com/ecom/ca...ookie%5Ftest=1 I've used older versions in the past and had excellent results. It is sold at US $59.95. Another option might be to try a Linux distribution on your laptop. - -- Ron n1zhi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBZo14a9fyRcf4bIYRAsqrAJ4rZoZ5THTJIBKHvGqMOK NXrVGbDgCeJQ8g mYPpBzayljrZUOX5TxZhAL4= =IcNh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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On Sat, 9 Oct 2004 12:05:20 +0100, JnJ
wrote: In article , says... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 JnJ wrote: A Medion laptop (four years old) will not see the full 40 gbs Hitachi hard drive just installed. It sees 8gb only. There is no bios update available from Medion and Hitachi can offer no help. Am I stuffed? You might consider the DiskManager DDO software from OnTrack: Another option might be to try a Linux distribution on your laptop. - -- Ron n1zhi Thanks for all that. The laptop is probably not worth the $56 for the Ontrack ODD Manager! Would a Linux OS (I have mandrake and Suse to hand) recognise the full capacity? Huh? Go to the HDD manufacturer's website, practically all of them offer a utilities/installation floppy that has "free" DDO installation option, probably the same Ontrack DDO. |
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