Hello,
My new Maxtor hard drive is well detected (as 80GB) but I can't use it as 80G, only 10G.
Award BIOS gefunden : Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
Award ID-String : 10/20/1998-692-596-W977-2A6LGM4CC-00
Board/BIOS-Version : W6190VAM7 V1.2B1 081401 17:21:59
A bios file can be found on medion website
thanks for patching
80GB: 10/20/1998-692-596-W977-2A6LGM4CC-00
Did you remove the 32GB limit jumper from the drive ? What problem do you have ?D:\Hardware\medion>..\award\awd64gb w6190vm7.121
AWD64GB.EXE - Award BIOS patcher for HDDs over 32GB & 64GB v0.9
Copyright (c) 2002 Rainbow Software (http://rainbow.ht.st).
Searching for Main Block...Found at 131072
BIOS ID string: 10/20/1998-692-596-W977-2A6LGM4CC-00
BIOS OEM string: W6190VAM7 V1.2B1 081401 17:21:59
INT13h Extensions...Present: new-style
=> BIOS already supports HDDs over 32GB!
Searching for size calculation routine...is already OK
Searching for SETUP size calculation routine...is already OK
BIOS already supports HDDs over 32GB & 64GB - Nothing to do!
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Looks like the MS FDISK bug.
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Oh, yes. Rainbow is right. It is not the jumper problem as that would make the drive show up as 32 GB.crazyfwed wrote:Hello,
My new Maxtor hard drive is well detected (as 80GB) but I can't use it as 80G, only 10G.
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This is probably the fdisk bug.NickS wrote: Oh, yes. Rainbow is right. It is not the jumper problem as that would make the drive show up as 32 GB.
I've tried to use the linux fdisk, but unsuccessfully because win98SE didn't want to install after format. It says something like "the last cluster of your disk is not accessible" -> abort
So I decided to use the software provided by maxtor which can partition, format partitions and install system files.
I've then successfully installed win98SE.
I'm not a windows expert (I use linux at home), but I'm not sure that the problem was only a (win98) fdisk problem.
Anyway, windows is installed, and the old dying disk is removed without any data loss.
Thanks for your responses.
There is a fixed version of the W98 FDISK available for download from Microsoft.
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