Well, I upgraded to the latest BIOS that is avaiable for my computer
from Toshiba and it still won't partition. I purchased a much
smaller 12 Gigabyte drive and it partitioned it fine. My guess is
that Toshibha didn't write a BIOS upgrade sufficient for larger
drives for their older machines. The want you to buy a new one. I
used 98 fdisk on my desktop for a 80 Gigabyte drive and it worked
fine, so I doubt it is the operating system. Could it be possible
that the drive is defective. However, the computer recognizes it, it
is only FDISK that does not.
John
--- In [email protected], "N. Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Upgrade the BIOS on the notebook. This appears to be the larger
than
> 32 GB limitation. The notebook is old enough that it could have
this
> issue. Upgrading the BIOS to the lastest flash version should
correct
> this. Do not partition the drive until this is done or it may
result
> in an LBA translation error.
>
>
> --- In [email protected], "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am trying to install a new Toshiba Hard Drive on a Toshiba
Laptop.
> > The laptop has an AMD Anthalon processor with 333 Mhz . When I
turn
> > the computer on it says ide error 0. It then loads the windows
98
> > bootdisk and says that windows 98 has detected that the hard
drive has
> > not been partitioned. However, when I try to enter the command
fdisk
> > it says no fixed drive present. It recognizes it ar first, but,
> > somehow fdisk can't find it. Anyone know if there is a different
way
> > to do this, how this can be rectified, or what the problem is?
> >
> > John
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