I have an older pc PII 350 (fujitsu)win98
It had an 8gig HDD i upgraded it to a 40gig HDD.
But just got new pc and want to put 40gig in it.
So the problem is now the older pc thinks the 8gig is an 40gig , i have tried to reformat, but no joy.
Is it the mobo or is it the HDD.
Any help please
Hardware guy
i have no clue if this will effect you, but in some of my older computers, the mobo requires a proprietary hard drive... about the same type as you are describing... it will only acknowledge what it was told at the factory it has, so it would be the mobo...
Yea I would look in your mobo settings.
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You might try going to the manufacture's website (of the hard drive) and download the software for the hard drive, many times it will install a new bios on the hard drive, and then the mobo bios will detect the correct size.
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ive had this problem on a old p3 850 of mine. you need to go into the bios and get it to detect the drive its self agian, or another probelm is that you mobo only handles drives upto 8gb (can get tools to get past this though)
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Follow bob's advice and download the bios replacement from the manufacturers website, they all have them. You also need to remember that Win98 only recognises drives up to 32GB, there is a jumper you can set to limit the drive to this size.
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Thanks i altered my bios on master drive to auto instead of user and that seems to have worked just trying to format now thanks All.
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I spoke to soon the bios now showa 8gig but pc still shows 40gig.
I will look for bios flash or something
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Originally posted by lynx@11 November 2003 - 23:24
You also need to remember that Win98 only recognises drives up to 32GB, there is a jumper you can set to limit the drive to this size.
I have win98se and a 80gig Seagate which runs fine
is it that win98 just recognises up to 32gig but win98se also bigger ones?
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Benno it the reverse the 40gig works ok but after removal i cant put 8 gig back, unless there is a jumper i need to move to go back down. to 8gig?
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