Re: HDD Recognition

From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Wed Nov 24 1999 - 12:48:16 EST

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the machine SHOULD see what the drive is telling it is there..

so, first, be sure the drive is formatted for the full 10gigs..
also note: 10gigs is 10billion (base 10), not 10 billion bytes (base 8)
which is more.. :-)

so the true yeild for a 10gig drive is 9 something gigaBYTES...

JEShoemaker_at_aol.com wrote:

> My TP770X came with a 8GB HDD. When I attached
> a 10GB external PCMCIA HD to make a mirror image,
> only 8.2GB were recognized.
>
> I have the latest Windows 98 BIOS installed. INT 13
> is checked, but greyed-out, in Disk Drive Properties in
> Device Manager.
>
> How can I get the machine to recognize a larger than
> 8GB hard drive?
>
> TIA ... John

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