new hard drive old computer

[linemanduke]

i want to put a 80 gig ata-6 drive in my toshiba 400cdt to replace the 2 gig eide drivethat died only thing is it thinks the drive is 16 megabytes any way to trick it into seeing the drive at the size it is?

 

[NathanAllan]

check to see if there is a bios update on toshiba's site. They usually have excellent files for all their machines. Just don't try to call Off the top of my head, there ya go. I can't comment on the ata stuff, though. Too new for me.

Nathan

 

[linemanduke]

already got the bios update didn't help

 

[evildragon]

you need a bios overlay. look for the HD manufacturer, they may have one.

 

[linemanduke]

kay will look its a seagate 4200.2

 

[MikeS]

*What* thinks it's only 16GB? The BIOS, or not an old version of fdisk by any chance?

 

[linemanduke]

16megabytes
mb

 

[MikeS]

Ah, time for new glasses...
Thought it might be the problem with fdisk rolling over.

Good one...

 

[linemanduke]

well lots of disk managers and the whole ms dos 6.22 not supporting fat32 so using 7.1 and then having problems with 3.11 not liking that issues. i have finally worked out all the kinks and now i have a windows 3.11 computer with an 80 gigabyte harddrive. just thinking about all the games i could put on it :D and usefull school stuff to . i really want to use it to play music though but can only get it to play Cd's so need to find a program to pull the songs off the cd and play them.