More HD frustration!
Posted: Sun May 12, 2002 1:34 am
Hi Everyone,
It's about the 32 GB limit again I'm afraid....
I have a three year old HD on my PC which I wanted to replace so I purchased a 40 GB Maxtor HD. When I installed it first it was only detecting 32 GB on my PC and refused to allow me set it as master.
I had to use it as slave to the existing HD, even though I wanted the full 40 gigs and also wanted it as master, not slave.
After consulting with the good people on this forum I discovered that I neede to upgrade my BIOS, which I did without any problems.
After installing the new BIOS chip, I finally got the full use of my 40 GB hard drive (well it actually only showed up as 37 but that's five gigs extra anyway).
Unfortunately, I am still unable to set it as master!
As it's booting up, it gets as far as "Detecting IDE Primary Master...." and then freezes!
I have a feeling the CMOS has not been updated, as the 40 GB drive is only shown as 32 on the CMOS.
I also downloaded a "BIOS Wizard" which ran a series of tests on my BIOS and it failed one called "Enhanced Hard Disk Drive Test" which is described as follows:
"Enhanced Disk Drive Specification was designed to support large volume hard disk drives. If your BIOS does not support this specification, you will not be able to support large volume hard disk drives with your PC. For example, Hard Drives larger than 8.4 Gigabytes or 32 Gigabytes."
Can anyone tell me what I should do now?
Thanks in advance to anyone who replies!
It's about the 32 GB limit again I'm afraid....
I have a three year old HD on my PC which I wanted to replace so I purchased a 40 GB Maxtor HD. When I installed it first it was only detecting 32 GB on my PC and refused to allow me set it as master.
I had to use it as slave to the existing HD, even though I wanted the full 40 gigs and also wanted it as master, not slave.
After consulting with the good people on this forum I discovered that I neede to upgrade my BIOS, which I did without any problems.
After installing the new BIOS chip, I finally got the full use of my 40 GB hard drive (well it actually only showed up as 37 but that's five gigs extra anyway).
Unfortunately, I am still unable to set it as master!
As it's booting up, it gets as far as "Detecting IDE Primary Master...." and then freezes!
I have a feeling the CMOS has not been updated, as the 40 GB drive is only shown as 32 on the CMOS.
I also downloaded a "BIOS Wizard" which ran a series of tests on my BIOS and it failed one called "Enhanced Hard Disk Drive Test" which is described as follows:
"Enhanced Disk Drive Specification was designed to support large volume hard disk drives. If your BIOS does not support this specification, you will not be able to support large volume hard disk drives with your PC. For example, Hard Drives larger than 8.4 Gigabytes or 32 Gigabytes."
Can anyone tell me what I should do now?
Thanks in advance to anyone who replies!