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600e how to enable LBA in bios?
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:23 pm
by woodworker2004
Im replacing a burned up 20g h/d with a 40g h/d. I have fdisked with large drive, made 2 partions, made it actice, formatted and (each C and D drive) can be seen in a regular pc with adapter card. When installed in the 600e, I can see C drive but no D drive for 2nd partition. Im trying to install 98se telling me I have problems with C drive, lost clusters at end of drive. Also it tells me that LBA is not enabled in the bios. How can I enable it? That drive can be seen in reg pc anytime I instal it in there.
Thanx
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:33 pm
by JHEM
The problem is that you apparently formatted the HD in your desktop, something that should NEVER be done!
Run FDISK from whatever media you have available while it's in the laptop and REMOVE all partitions. Then reboot the unit, go into EZSetup, initialize, restart, then FDISK and FORMAT the HD again while it's in the 600E.
Desktops and laptops don't address HD architecture in the same way so formatting a laptop HD in a desktop will often lead to a problem such as this.
Regards,
James
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:36 pm
by sktn77a
I believe LBA is the default for the 600E. Don't usually need to do anything else. Did you fdisk and format the drives in the 600E? Once, I was having problems with my 600E hard drive (10Gb) and IBM tech support gave me a command (DOS, I believe) "reset c" and that ficed the problem - never heard of it before and never heard of it since (?!)
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 12:48 pm
by woodworker2004
Since it dont have a floppy, the best I can do I think is make a backup copy of 98se and add fdisk to that cd and see if that'll help with that part.
I'll keep monitoring till I get this fixed.
Thanx for the help so far.
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 1:29 pm
by woodworker2004
I made a bootdisk for cd, fdisk dont see hard drive, so im going to delete it all on reg pc and try from scratch on 600e
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 1:52 pm
by carbon_unit
You should be able to boot from the 98se cd and choose "command prompt", then go to the "virtual" A:\ drive and fdisk should be there.
After you make your partitions then you could copy the entire win98 folder from the 98se cd to the D:\ drive and install 98se from there. It will install faster and when you install other programs you will not have to keep putting the win98 disk in all the time.
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 1:54 pm
by woodworker2004
Im now able to format, gonna take some time to do both and try installing 98se, will keep posting.
Posted: Sun Sep 19, 2004 2:49 pm
by woodworker2004
When I do my reg pc's, I do copy 98se cd to drive. On this 600e I didnt.
98se is now installed and I can see D drive
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The question I have now is why is the amount of H/D space is not what I want them to be. I wanted 35% for C drive and 65% for D drive from a 40g drive??? They should be about 15g and 23g.