guys read below .. u all shridhar bish suresh and others have been a BIG help .. but neway as for now .. i think id better finish this thread now .. and get back to some more linux knowledge .. flash upgrading seems the only way out .. --- USM Bish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kernel 2.4.x should be able to see 40 GB .. No patch necessary. > I am beginning to suspect if the hardware vendor has taken you > for a ride, since neither Win nor Linux can see it !!! no .. certainly not .. i have verified this .. this hdd is detected as 40 gigs on 700Mhz PIII coppermine and PIII500Mhs > Step 1: Take off the lid and see the model no and check the h/w > specs for that model. done all that i verified this model etc .. > Step 2: Normally, hdparm and fdisk should be able to see the > whole disk. Boot through your rescue floppy into rescue > mode and do: > > fdisk /dev/hda ... see if the full thing is recognised, > and if there is any free space anywhere. There are good > many chances of non-contiguous partitioning, specially > with DOS fdisk on a large HDD. yeah dat is there .. but both of fdisk and hdparm have some number of cylinders totalling upto 33.8GB more than 32 gb reported by bios > Step 3: Crosscheck the figures of fdisk with hdparm -i. You had > posted it, IIRC, but I have deleted the mail. Both the > figures should tally. they do .. > Step 4: If there are holes in your hard disk between the parti- > tions, or space left at the end, you can do the things > you state below, otherwise, no point. exactly thats why im asking u all to end this thread > Only the last partition should be deleted if needed. If that is > partitions and the extended partition only. All logical parti- > tions come under the extended. first one is linux native root last one is linux swap .. and before dat two linux native and one windoze but i think ill have to re partition .. thx evry1 cacofonixx the wiser one
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