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Hi! I am having Pentium-133Mhz system, when i installing 20Gb HARDDISK it is detecting 8GB in CMOS BIOS and while booting it is giving I/O ERROR
UNABLE TO BOOT and i am not getting "C" prompt?
by tqp050774vp
by alpha-male
Almost assuredly this is a BIOS related problem. The system you are running cannot detect larger than 8gb partitions (I have a file server at home with the exact same issue).
You can check for a BIOS upgrade to get around the problem or see if there is a software utility made by the HD manufacturer that will allow you to access all of the drive. Otherwise, you'll have to go into fdisk and partition it into 8gb or less partitions. For what it's worth, this isn't a bad practice anyway...the larger the partition, the less efficient it tends to be (wastes space and encourages poor file management).
Hope this helps! Good luck...
by alpha-male
Since you cannot upgrade your BIOS, your options are to look for software from the drive manufacturer that will help you work around it, install a new adapter card with its own drivers to help you work around it, or to break up the drive into smaller partitions.
I have no problem with small partitions myself...they are more efficient. I use them just like folders to organize things and map the drives as needed. This doesn't work for everyone in every situation...but on my fileserver - whichfaced the same issues as your machine I made different drives for different files and mapped d$ as "Drivers and patches e$ as "Applications" etc....
by mrretentive
by thechas
Install a PCI bus ATA100 IDE controller card.
Set your BIOS so that SCSI is the first boot device, and you will be ammassed at the performance improvement.
The IDE card will take care of the BIOS hard drive limit with it's own BIOS.
The card will allow you to transfer files at several times the speed of your on-board IDE controller.
It will be the best $30 that you have ever spent on a PC upgrade.
Chas
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