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Hi Gary- I think this problem has to do with your Int13 Extensions not being enabled. Without this, there is a 8.4GB limit, which seems to fit. Look in your setup program for this setting and make sure it is enabled. It may take some digging to find it. Best of luck, Clydeo22
Sorry about that. INT13 Extensions are a BIOS extension that allow you to use a hard drive up to 137GB. Logical Block Addressing (LBA) broke the old DOS barrier of 504MB hard drives and permits drives up to 8.4GB. This has to do with the logical geometry of the hard drive having to stay within certain limits. LBA and the INT13 Extensions in effect, lie to the system BIOS and circumvent the limit. Most hard drives will be fine if the settings are Auto and LBA in the CMOS setup. Check that first. If you have an old board, you may have to update the BIOS or I believe you can get a drive overlay program from your hard drive manufacturer. Check the setup settings first. I hope this makes sense. Good luck! Clydeo22.
Hi Gary- Way to hang in there! When you start your computer, do you see a screen that tells you how to enter setup? Usually it is something like pres F1, Del, F10 or some other key combination depending on your manufacturer. If you can find that, go into setup and just check to see what the IDE (Hard drive) settings are and write back. If we can get that info, I think that with all the great people on this board, we can figure something out. I will do some checking on your make and model# and see what I can dig up. Also, on the first screen you see upon startup, find your BIOS make and version number. It should be at the very top. Back in a bit, Clydeo22.
Last edited by clydeo22; 24th August 2003 at 21:06.
Gary:
What did you do when you were using FDISK? Give me a little information. What did you use it for? What did it tell you?
I've done some work on a CDT4030 and I don't think there is much difference with your machine other than the cpu - The original HDD in a 4030 was something like 6 gigs.
The only option for "Built-in HDD" is "Not used" but there are many options for "Selectible Bay"
They are all the things in the BIOS I think will interest you.
But here is something very interesting aswell "Resource confict found. Are you sure ? (Y/N)" message appears as I leave the BIOS even though I have pressed the "Home" Key to set default values!
Thank you for you help,
Gary Maton
Notes:
I now have an operating system on the PC (Windows 98)
BIOS version = 6.B0 (the latest version to my knowledge)
The computer is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 440CDT (Laptop)
