80GB: 10/20/1998-i440BX-W977-2A69KM4JC-00

[djeten]

My 80 GB hard disk is not recognized.
CTBIOS gave me following information:
Award ID-String : 10/20/1998-i440BX-W977-2A69KM4JC-00
Board/BIOS-Version : W6190ZXM7 V1.3 090699
OEM : MICRO STAR
URL : http://www.msi-computer.de
Chipset : i440BX-W977 //Intel 440BX

I didn't find my type of bios on the microstar website...
Can somebody help me?

[edwin]

Medion MD9901 OEM-board.
http://www.cosiworld.de/index.html

[djeten]

thanx man
that was quick!

[djeten]

The update was succesfull, but I still can't use the disc. When I perform Auto HDD Detection, my computer stops... Nothing happens... and when I set everything to detect automatic, the disc is detected, but the pc won't continue...

[Denniss]

Which file was used ?
The file directly from Medion
http://download.medion.de/medion.de/tre ... &name=Bios
or the patched file from here :
http://www.cosiworld.de/files/w6190zm7.zip

[edwin]

Instructions are there, I don't know what went wrong...
http://www.cosiworld.de/bios_eng.html

[djeten]

I used the one from cosiworld... I'll try it again...

[djeten]

ok i'm back...
Now my computer starts... It finds the disk... it says 80GB so that's ok... but when I want to use FDISK it can only see 10 GB... What's wrong now?
Is it FDISK that can't read these large disks or what?

[georgep]

Probably the microsoft fdisk issue for large hard drives, described here

http://support.microsoft.com/default.as ... us;q263044

You can download an updated fdisk if that is the problem.

[djeten]

I've already tried that, it doesn't work...
Now I've downloaded DiskWizard from Seagate so I'll try that now...

[edwin]

You are telling fdisk you have got a large harddisk?

[djeten]

What do you mean by telling FDISK I got a large disk?
Anyway it worked with DiskWizard from Seagate so everything is ok now
Thanks for all the help...