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buffguns
03-30-2002, 09:33 PM
I have an award bios on a biostar mb. The bios shows 2.1 GB for both my hard drives. I have re flashed the bios once, and no help. My hdd's are Maxtor 30 and 18's. Any ideas?
HRM
03-30-2002, 10:24 PM
If the bios misreads the size of the drives, but everything else works fine, It might just be a reporting error.

It could be there is no fix, but it shouldn't matter at all.
buffguns
03-30-2002, 10:55 PM
Everything works fine, but partition commander won't load because of the reported size of the hdd.
BipolarBill
03-31-2002, 12:02 AM
Get yourself one of these:

http://www.pricegrabber.com/search_getprod.php/masterid=419815/blsrt=1/ut=18a04c6a7a7d6b10/

It will see the whole drive and PartCom will give the OK. ;)
buffguns
03-31-2002, 12:34 AM
thanks...BPB.
SPEEDO
03-31-2002, 06:51 AM
Did you Fisk and Format these drives using Fat32?

SPEEDO
BipolarBill
03-31-2002, 06:59 AM
Ahhh...good point, Speedo! FAT has a 2.1 GB limit. If you are using a Win95A boot floppy or WinNT, the format will be limited to FAT instead of FAT32 - which has a much higher limit. You need to use a newer floppy:


http://dos.li5.org/IMGS/WIN98SE.EXE

You will need to FDISK again.
buffguns
03-31-2002, 10:10 PM
To Speedo,

I am running ME with Fat 32, with an AMD 1.3.
BipolarBill
03-31-2002, 10:19 PM
Oh well...I guess you need the card. Good luck!
Imperion1
03-31-2002, 10:39 PM
When you did Fdisk the drive, did you also tell it to use the full size of the drive?
Try creating a logical drive and extended partitions to see what happens.
buffguns
03-31-2002, 10:57 PM
I did tell it to use the whole drive, I have three logical drives on one, and the 18 gb is a single drive. My old 350 that I took the drives out of when I got the new box did recognize the drives as the correct size. Windows recognizes them as the right size, and I have full use of them. The only problem child has been trying to install system commander. I also have formatted and re-installed ME and all my programs/files since the installation in the new box, and I still get a 2.1 using auto in the bios setup. I only get 8.5 reported if I manually enter the drive information.
SPEEDO
04-01-2002, 08:08 AM
What is the Model number and the version of this Biostar Motherboard.
It sounds like it may not support above the 8.4 barrier.

Also run Fdisk and select option #4 and see what it lists for partition sizes in there.

SPEEDO
buffguns
04-01-2002, 10:01 PM
The board is a M7VKD which was sold and advertised as state of the art? I think I'm going to be going back to the outlet that sold this to me and get something different. Thanks for the help, guys.
BipolarBill
04-01-2002, 10:06 PM
That board supports large drives! LoL! We thought it was OLD - like me. :p

Did you set BIOS to auto-detect the drives or did you manually detect them and make a selection?
rextex
04-01-2002, 11:31 PM
There's a jumper on some drives to set it to a 2.1 limit.Not only that there seems to be some soft setting programs for Maxtor.
You need to search Maxtor with the exact model #.
Here's an example:
Look under Maxtor on page.
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-11.html

-Oh well, I see it works anyway......."never mind".

(P.s. I've lived in Golden.Beautiful Place.Miss the foothills.)