On Thursday 05 May 2005 08:14 am, eric jackson wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > eric jackson wrote: > >>Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>>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 so I don't > >>>>know anything about them. Do you think it would be both possible to > >>>>upgrade the bios through one of those methods? Would it be safe? > >>>> > >>>>If not I guess I'll have to install Windows and do the upgrade and then > >>>>reinstall LE 2005. > >>>> > >>>>Eric > >>> > >>>Check the file to see if unzip will expand it. A lot of these upgrades > >>>are self extracting .zip files. Others create a bootable floppy that > >>>does the upgrade. A program that will upgrade the BIOS while running > >>>Windows is a rare thing. (But I have run accross one...) > >>> > >>>Mikkel > >> > >>Thanks for your help. > >> > >>I did get it to unzip. Then I copied it's files to a floppy but it won't > >>boot under Mandriva. > >> > >> > >>Eric > > > > Eric, > > In the files you extracted, or on the web site you got the files from > > there should be instructions on what to do. If not, here are generic > > instructions: > > > > Download http://www.freepctech.net/files/wbiosboot.exe > > Unzip wbiosboot.exe - you should get wbiosboot.IMA > > Put a blank, formatted floppy in the floppy drive. > > Run "dd if=wbiosboot.IMA of=/dev/fd0" to put the image on the disk. > > Remove the disk, and put it back in so supermount will mount it > > properly, or run "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy". > > Copy the BIOS upgrade files to the floppy. > > This turned out to be a problem because some of the files on wbiosboot > have the same name as the BIOS upgrade files. I didn't think I should > change anything because I assumed that some of the files might be > dependent on something I changed. > > > Shutdown and reboot the system. Make sure the BIOS is set to boot from > > floppy. If the disk does not autostart the BIOS upgrade, then you will > > need to figure out the command to run. > > As I mentioned in a reply just a few minutes ago, I may not need to do > the BIOS upgrade. I wanted to do the upgrade because it is supposed to > allow you to access larger hard drives. Looking at my drive in Diskdrake > I discovered that all of the drive was there. My guess is the BIOS > limited the size of the partition but the rest of the drive is there as > an empty partition. > > > Thanks for your help. > > Eric Jackson > sometimes just cause the bios was made for a certain windows version, don't mean linux has a problem with the drive
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