40GB in my old IBM PII 266

[kewlcoder]

Hi,
I am having an old IBM Personal Computer 300XL - P-II, 266Mhz, 128MB RAM. My old hard disk got spolied so i had to buy a new one i have a 40GB HDD now but the system is only recognising it as 8GB or so.... how do i get to use the max of it.... i tried putting the userdefined settings in the bios... but the system still showed less
what do i do.

please advice.

thank you
bye
kewlcoder

 

[Sival]

You need a BIOS flash. That is, if the board is not so old that there is none available to allow the system to see all of the hard drive space. Look for the latest BIOS for your board and try it. I guess you should start with the IBM website to look for it. Good luck.

 

[kiddpete]

I got around bios limitations by putting the HD on a controller card that has a more modern bios. I don't know, however, if the PC could boot from that disk.

 

[kewlcoder]

thank you guys,
found a solution myself.
I guess the Win 98 which i installed did the magic... because the bios still shows me 8gb
but from 98 i am able to access the rest of the partions and all 40gb


kewl na

anyways.... thank you guys...