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On 27/10/11 13:26, Julian Hall wrote:
Latest update. The BIOS update is a windows file and wouldn't run under DOS. I overwrote my PCLinuxOS with WinXP and updated the bios. Changed the drive to the 160 Gb but the new BIOS doesn't even think that there is a drive there, just like the old BIOS.On 27/10/2011 13:03, George Parker wrote:On 27/10/11 12:17, Julian Hall wrote:Thank you chaps. There is a BIOS update but this is a microsoft EXE file, of course. Has anyone tried updating a bios using a virtual OS, in my case winXP in VirtualBox?On 27/10/2011 11:55, tom wrote:I've had this with an old PC before.. the BIOS in that case would only recognise up to 32Gb (yes it was VERY old) so unless there is a BIOS upgrade that will recognise greater than 80Gb I suspect it's just going to sit there refusing to see the larger drive. As far as I know it's the overall physical drive capacity the BIOS looks at not the partition table, may be worth a try though.On 27/10/11 11:37, Julian Hall wrote:It may be possible to partition the drive up (via a cd rom or other machine) and then it may work?On 27/10/2011 08:27, George Parker wrote:IBM Thinkpad T42http://www.fixya.com/support/t1665591-thinkpad_t42_hard_disk_problem Maximum 80Gb according to this forum, sorry. JulianTom te tom te tomJulianGeorgehttp://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1035372Exactly this question. Opinion seems divided, but I think the safe route would be to get a boot disk image from http://www.allbootdisks.com/ and have a go with that.Kind regards, Julian
And yet there are posts on the net saying that people have installed 160 Gb drives on the T42.
Back to the drawing board. Thanks everybody George -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq