Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 23:39:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] OT: 30GB BIOS barrier on Dell Dimension
--- David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> And if all else fails, a cheap <$40 newer
> motherboard that you can swap out for
> the current one that'll handle large HDs w/o any
> problems at all.
>
> sometimes, it's just not worth spending so much
> time on an obsolete HW, when
> you can at least run a newer MB for years more
> (assuming at some point in the
> future, you swap in a faster processor as well).
Don't know if you caught my comment on the fact that
this Dell is now seeing the entire 120GB on this HDD
now setup as master on the primary IDE channel now.
I'm guessing thay the 4 W2K FD setup disks that
prepared the way for loading the W2k CD installation
program must have installed its own drive overlay via
a new MBR to deal with the problem.
One way or the other, I now need nothing but the 120GB
Western Digital HDD I got for $50 after rebates.
Matt
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