riccardo wrote:
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 05:47 pm, eric jackson wrote:
I bought a 250 G hard drive but my computer only recognizes 139 megs. There is a bios upgrade available from Gateway for my computer but it's a Windows program. I've never run Wine or Crossover Office
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maybe Linux does not care about BIOS too much
~ after you have booted up, use < cfdisk > are check what size disk cfdisk is seeing [ prolly will see full size & thus no problem ]
No need to run Wine or Crossover Office . . . just use Open Office :))
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I feel like the guy who can't figure out why his computer won't turn on only to discover it was unplugged! I haven't had a chance to look further but I used Diskdrake yesterday before I went to work. It does show the remainder of the hard drive. It just says it's empty. I don't know yet if I can actually use it(access it, format it,) but I'll give it a try over the weekend.
It may be that the bios limited the size of the partition on my computer but the rest of the drive is available to me as a seperate partition.
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it is no big deal ~ sure to be simple instructions on the Mobo manufacturers web-site, however, you prolly do NOT need to do anything :))
Actually, if Mandriva lets me access the other part of the drive, you are right, I really don't need the bios upgrade.
Eric Jackson
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