On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 17:10:30 -0400, you wrote: >On Sun, 5 Jun 2005 21:27:16 +0100, Derrick wrote: > >>Is the HDD a brand new one or used? I bet its a used one ! > >On Sunday 05 June 2005 8:54 pm, I wrote: >>> Thanks for your helpful suggestions, Jim. I was able to boot to the >>> floppy when no HD or CD were present. > >I'm trying to replace an old dead drive in an old PII
Well there is the problem. Most old drives are about 4Gb at most probably much less and the cylinder/sector ration are not compatible. You might have to tweak the bios to accept LBA (Large Block Access) or use software to fool the bios into accepting a scrambled cyl/sector. Western Digital do one and so do a few others but probably not any more. You might have to format the drive to the size that was originally fitted so your 10Gb drive might have to be 2Gb or smaller. >with a new drive but things >aren't cooperating. I'm at the end of my patience and so I will return the >system >in the same condition it was received. In place of reimbursing the cost of the >new >HD (which was purchased at my suggestion) I'll offer one of my older/working >systems that is now gathering dust. It seems like a fair trade. :-) >-- >cheers, Stephen Sir Hugh of Bognor Intelligence is not knowing the answer but knowing where and how to find it! Hugh Gundersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bognor-bill.co.uk Bognor Regis, W.Sussex, England, UK ------------------------------------------------- Vyisder Asmeni Orsisarsis Asderisorsis. B.Cozderiz Vunarz PERORZ ------------------------------------------------- -- ---------------------------------------- The WIN-HOME list is hosted on a Windows 2000(TM) machine running L-Soft international's LISTSERV(R) software. To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have questions about the list, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
