hard drive question

27 Feb 2005 10:37 PM

Bacchus

hi,

I just installed a 30gig hard drive in my buddies old Pentium PC Compaq
Presario. The problem is, it will not read the 30 gigs. It is still stuck
on 1.9gigs which was the size of the original hard drive. This is an old PC
(1996)

Do I need to do something in the BIOS? How do I get into the BIOS if I need
to?

thanks

27 Feb 2005 10:35 PM

philo

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"Bacchus" <kdoye2***@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> hi,
>
> I just installed a 30gig hard drive in my buddies old Pentium PC Compaq
> Presario. The problem is, it will not read the 30 gigs. It is still
stuck
> on 1.9gigs which was the size of the original hard drive. This is an old
PC
> (1996)
>
> Do I need to do something in the BIOS? How do I get into the BIOS if I
need
> to?
>
> thanks
>
>

first off
be sure the bios sees the drive correctly as 30 gigs...
if not, you will need to either get a pci controller card
or else use the drive overlay software that should have come with the drive
(or downloaded from the mfg's website)

however the reason you are seeing just 2 gigs is (probably) that when you
used
fdisk to partition the drive , you negleted to enable large drive support.

get a recent version of fdisk
then run it again be sure to enable large drive support...
then delete the partition and recreate...

you will need to then reboot and format the drive before you can load the OS

however...if the full 30 gigs is not there...then you have a bios issue