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Offline Speelgoedmannetje

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Re: I'm WinDumb and I admit it!
« on: June 27, 2004, 10:19:01 PM »
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Holley wrote:
Windows 98 has a limit, IIRC it's 35Gb ish.
Can't be the problem, I got a 40gb hdd running on w98
it's gotta be the mobo wich is the problem,

btw. a 850mb hdd in a p2 comp? Strange. I got my p2 standard with 6gb wich was kinda standard.
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Re: I'm WinDumb and I admit it!
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2004, 10:23:55 PM »
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JaXanim wrote:
My mobo is an ABit BX6, anyone know if it'll accept an 80Gb drive?

I'll also try the downloadable partitioning stuff. (How do you get a partitioning program over 1.44Mb to run on a non-booting PeeCee? Sounds daft to me!)
methinks that's not necessary. I think ABit has a bios update on it's site so that'll do the job (at least, when I put in my 40gb hdd, I had to flash my bios, otherwise the mobo wouldn't reckognise more than 32gb).

btw. Be VERY careful though with flashing your bios, know the type motherboard and get the appropriate bios, or you'll destroy your mobo.
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Re: I'm WinDumb and I admit it!
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2004, 12:40:54 PM »
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JaXanim wrote:
@speel...etc

I've never flashed anything in my life, let alone my BIOS!

What the heck do I do?

I assume I download the fresh Flash to a floppy and run it from a DOS screen...?

Scarey stuff for an Amigan!

Cheers,

JaX
the flashing I did was really simple, actually:
gather all the information about the mobo, then search for the appropriate boot utility and especially, the appropriate bios binary. put it on a bootdisk (you can make a bootdisk under DOS with: sys A:, or: format A: /s)
start your computer with this bootdisk (make sure booting from floppy is enabled in your bios) start in the command line the utility with the bios binary filename as argument (like: flash bios.bin) and there you go! Make sure you have minimal software in memory, like cdrom drivers etc. to prevent locking up, and make sure you do not turn off your computer or anything else that interrupt the flashing process, otherwise the mobo will be destroyed)

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JaXanim wrote:
@speel...etc

cut 'n paste 'll do.
otherwise you can also say Eyso
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Re: I'm WinDumb and I admit it!
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2004, 12:15:24 AM »
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I fear I cannot really help you any further, JaX
I haven't used a bigger hd than a 40gb
hm, well, maybe you should search for the partitioning program "gdisk" (I believe it's from Norton)
That should fit on a single disk and I've solved quite a few hdd problems with it.
It's not really easy to use, since it uses many arguments.
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