IBM PIII doesn't recognize 80 Gig h/d

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"14 gigs and some change". I'm not sure where you are but in the U.S.,
"and some change" is slang for "and then some". I.e., the drive shows
to be a bit over 14 gigs (expressed in thousands of megs) in the system
summary.


Already set as the master.


Will take a look at it in my other machine.

Thanks.
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Remember, some WD h/drives have both MASTER AS SINGLE jumpering and
MASTER WITH SLAVE jumpering--you'd need the appropriate selection. s
 
Irwin said:
Ok, I get it, 14 and some change.

What is the physical config? Both on the same ribbon? Same ID channel?
No add in cards or anything like that?
Jeez.


IMF
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(e-mail address removed) wrote in @g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
The 6 gig C: drive died in my IBM PIII so I got an 80 gig drive at the
local Mega mart to use as the new C: drive but on installation, it
shows up as 14 gig and some change in the system summary. I already
have a 60 gig D drive which it recognizes no problem.

A couple of years ago I updated the bios, the bios is showing as
7/19/01. Shouldn't it recognize a drive of this size? FWIW, it shows to
be type 6862PW5.

Any suggestions? I went to ibm.com but they seem to have gotten rid of
what used to be great resources for their older PC's. Maybe I'm looking
in the wrong place?

Thanks for all shared knowledge and Happy New Year.
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I know the feeling. Just went through this myself.

There is a physical limit at 64Gig.
If your BIOS shows the wrong size you need to update the
BIOS.
You should also get the updated FDISK from Microsoft.
Or make sure your 3rd party partition tools are up
to date.
After that Windows should be OK with it. AFAIK Linux
should work fine if you have the latest tools as well.
 
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