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Hi there,
I need a little help. I recently Purchased a new hard drive for a
machine that came off the arc. The hard drive is a western digital 20
gig drive. The machine is an old pentium machine from 1992 roughly. I
have installed windows on the machine but noticed after that only 8.6
gig is actually available i tried using partition magic to make the
reast of the drive available but got nothing. then i managed to get
myself a diagnostic tool from WD and that indicated that the bios was
not allowing the drive to function fully.
This is the bios that needs updating Amibios 1.00.11.DNOR
I had to change that battery on the system as it was dead has been
some time now and also the hard drive that was on there had been
basically beated to death by god knows what cos it wont boot anymore
hence the new hard drive. The drive that i took out was 20 gig but
what i dont know is if it had the full 20 gig available or not. ive
tried to flash the bios but with no luck and as ive never done this
before im kind of looking for a bit if hand holding to help me through
it i dont wanna mess the motherboard up by getting it wrong.
Any guidlelines that might help me through this would be much
appreciated.
Daz!
Hi there,
I need a little help. I recently Purchased a new hard drive for a
machine that came off the arc. The hard drive is a western digital 20
gig drive. The machine is an old pentium machine from 1992 roughly. I
have installed windows on the machine but noticed after that only 8.6
gig is actually available i tried using partition magic to make the
reast of the drive available but got nothing. then i managed to get
myself a diagnostic tool from WD and that indicated that the bios was
not allowing the drive to function fully.
This is the bios that needs updating Amibios 1.00.11.DNOR
I had to change that battery on the system as it was dead has been
some time now and also the hard drive that was on there had been
basically beated to death by god knows what cos it wont boot anymore
hence the new hard drive. The drive that i took out was 20 gig but
what i dont know is if it had the full 20 gig available or not. ive
tried to flash the bios but with no luck and as ive never done this
before im kind of looking for a bit if hand holding to help me through
it i dont wanna mess the motherboard up by getting it wrong.
Any guidlelines that might help me through this would be much
appreciated.
Daz!