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hardie21
11-15-2000, 04:15 PM
I am building some systems that I acquired. These systems are pretty old. The ones I have up on the table right now are Dell /Dimesion XPS P60's. I have installed new memory chips, nic, video card, and hard drive. My problem is that when I run fdisk to create new partitions on the new drive (6Gig) it will only partition only 472MB. I have downloaded the updated BIOS for this machine from the Dell website and ran the update.
The BIOS is set to AUTO and it displays the correct size, # of heads and cylinders, but....

Can anyone help me?? Is it the size of the drive??

I have acquired 4 of these Dell machine. I need to get them running for very small minimal tasks. I only need to load WIN95 and 2 other common sized software programs; however, this requires more than the 472 MB it is allowing me to have.



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Paleo Pete
11-15-2000, 11:22 PM
Sounds like a BIOS drive size limitation. Try going to the drive manufacturer's website and downloading their installation software. It goes by different names, but is usually Ontrack's Disk Manager. It works very well at fooling the BIOS into thinking it has a compatible drive.



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