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Posted by Sjouke Burry on February 28, 2006, 12:51 pm
Please log in for more thread options DCA wrote:
> Sjouke Burry wrote:
>
>> Dallas wrote:
>>
>>> I have an old Pentium 200mhz and i have just bought a 40gb hard drive,
>>> i cannot get this laptop to autodetect the hard drive. This laptop
>>> doesnt have windows installed and doesnt have a cd rom drive or a usb
>>> port. please tell me what to do
>>>
>> Try to get hold of a win98SE startup floppy,
>> and check with fdisk (enable large files,fat32),
>> and tell it to create a primary partition,
>> using all space.
>> This will show you what the bios will support.
>> One of muy oldest computers will not go past 2GB,
>> a somewhat les old one stops at 32 GB.
>> Short of a bios upgrade, you cannot change
>> those limits.
>> Anyway,create the biggest partition it allows,
>> then start installing windows.
>> You could insert your disk in anohter WIN
>> computer,and format the disk,and copy the i386
>> directory from the install CD to it.
>> Put then the disk in your computer, and install
>> from that directory.
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>
> If it won't handle the whole capacity of the HDD, then create 2
> partitions - that should get round the issues?
Sorry,no. Its a bios limitation,it just does not
"see" beyond those limits, its as if there is
just a smaller drive, no acceas to the rest.
When fdisk offers to make a partition, it shows
you all it can find, soo new computerboard or
new bios,if available.
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