New HDD in Solo 2300

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My old HDD died and I purchased a new Hitachi 20GB drive. After doing
the fdisk, format and OS install, the machine still shows only 8GB.
After checking online for the answer to my problem, I have come up
empty. I tried the whole fdisk/format again, thinking I might have had
another option but it didn't help. What do I need to do or what am I
doing wrong???

 

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weowncaseih wrote:
> My old HDD died and I purchased a new Hitachi 20GB drive. After doing
> the fdisk, format and OS install, the machine still shows only 8GB.
> After checking online for the answer to my problem, I have come up
> empty. I tried the whole fdisk/format again, thinking I might have had
> another option but it didn't help. What do I need to do or what am I
> doing wrong???
>
Just depends what your bios is and your operating system. I have had
many problems with this, update the bios first then go from there.

Ryan

 

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My operating system is W98SE and the bios version is 7.44. The website
shows it as the latest version, so I'm not really sure what to do now.

 

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weowncaseih Wrote:
> My operating system is W98SE and the bios version is 7.44. The website
> shows it as the latest version, so I'm not really sure what to do now.

Download and use "Ezdrive". I use it on my Solo2300 with a 20GB drive,
and it works great. Actually I used a self extracting File called
"Ezdrvsma.exe", but the program itself is called Ezdrive. So the links
below should work. If not, drop me aline and I will send you my file.

WesternDigital-Drives:
http://www.storagedrivers.com/drivers/85/85286.htm

Maxtor-Drives:
http://www.storagedrivers.com/drivers/65/65618.htm

Cheers,
Hartwig


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