380Z and 40 GigaByte Hard Drive

[PaulHappy]

Hello:

My neighbour has a 380Z with a 6 GB hard drive and she wishes to upgrade to a 40 GB. She is running Windows 2000.

The computer seems to recognize the drive however when I try to put Windows 2000 on it, (1st I tried to Ghost from old hard drive, 2nd I tried a clean install) I get the boot error message "NTLDR is missing" . Is there any way around this or can the 380Z simply not deal with a hard drive this large?

Thanks,

Paul

[AlphaKilo470]

maybe you could try some sort of drive overlay utility but I'm sure the drive alone should work. I have a 40gb Toshiba in my ThinkPad 600E which uses the same chipset, the Intel 440BX and in the past it ran Win 2k SP4 perfectly and now it's running XP SP2 quite smoothly.

[tfflivemb2]

Have you updated the BIOS to be able to handle the largeer drive, as well as Win2000?

[PaulHappy]

Hi:

I've updated the BIOS, yes. Something interesting; I have these floppy disks made from Partition Magic 8.0, they see the hard drive as 8 GB. When I run a Live Linux CD on the computer it sees the drive as its full size...

Paul