Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:30:51 -0400
From: "Lawrence Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Libretto 70CT with 1.6G Drive (or should I say 2.1G Drive)
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From: "Doug Dmytryka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:29 PM
Subject: Libretto 70CT with 1.6G Drive (or should I say 2.1G Drive)
> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:23:51 -0400
> From: "Doug Dmytryka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Libretto 70CT with 1.6G Drive (or should I say 2.1G Drive)
>
> While looking on the web for information about a problem I am having with
my
> 70CT, I ran across a comment that some of the 70CT models have 2.1G Drives
> that are only using 1.6G. I checked my drive and, sure enough, I have a
> 2.1G drive. Now, how can I utilize the unused 400 or so MB?
>
> I understand that Bios 6.30 and 6.40 will not recognize the extra space.
So
> I loaded 6.20 Bios and ran Fdisk to view the partition information. It
said
> that 75% of my drive is being utilized. I exited Fdisk without changing
> anything and tried booting into Win98. I get a message stating that I
need
> to insert a system disk (apparently, my boot information has been
> corrupted). I reload the 6.40 Bios, and everything is back to normal.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
These different BIOS has different translation on HDD layout. You just can't
expect your existing partition to work in both ways.
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