C. Presario 7QSM11 (7000z-series) Installed a new 120GB HD but cant see more than 23G

terry_b17 Wrote:
hi,
try using western digital data lifeguard to fdisk and format the drive
if you didn't get a cd with the drive you can download the utility
at
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n

hope this helps ,
terry


No way, I am not giving up my sister. Get your own! :-{

Trust me when I say, been there tried that.
Tried Western Digital's software from their CD, from a floppy I created
from there software, from a downloaded copy. It causes an error and
will not run.
I have tried Max Blaster (Maxtor's) software.
I have tried Partition Magic after re-installing the OS.
NONE of it works....BECAUSE THERE IS A GOVERNOR ON THIS MODEL OF COMPAQ
THAT LIMITS IT'S MAXIMAL INTERNAL HARDDRIVE SPEED TO 75GB.

I took the drive and formatted it in another drive and moved it over.
Would not work.
Are you getting the idea? No cracks at my sister unless you can tell
me what the actual governoring mechanism is...

Thanks thought Terry


--
bdubslawman

Not exactly a governor. We have a governor in Massachusetts to limit the speed
of OUR progress. The motherboard BIOS has a built-in limitation on hard disk
capacity, just like the BIOSes of motherboards before and motherboards of the
future. They all have some sort of BIOS limit at some point, because drives of
a given capacity weren't built or designed when the motherboard was.

The only choices are to stick to drives no bigger than the BIOS limit for a
notebook computer, to do the same for a desktop computer, or to buy a 3rd party
disk controller card (e.g. Promise) with its own disk BIOS to replace the one in
the motherboard. I'm not sure if Unicore would offer a flash BIOS replacement
for the 7000z motherboard, but that's another remote possibility to try.

The frustrating part is that the motherboard BIOS is a small hand-written
program that cannot be easily changed because it is burned into flash memory.
If the computer was running Linux, this message thread would never have started,
because Linux was written by smart programmers who know how to deal with BIOS
limitations... Ben Myers

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 16:53:02 +0000, bdubslawman
wrote:


terry_b17 Wrote:
hi,
try using western digital data lifeguard to fdisk and format the drive
if you didn't get a cd with the drive you can download the utility
at
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n

hope this helps ,
terry


No way, I am not giving up my sister. Get your own! :-{

Trust me when I say, been there tried that.
Tried Western Digital's software from their CD, from a floppy I created
from there software, from a downloaded copy. It causes an error and
will not run.
I have tried Max Blaster (Maxtor's) software.
I have tried Partition Magic after re-installing the OS.
NONE of it works....BECAUSE THERE IS A GOVERNOR ON THIS MODEL OF COMPAQ
THAT LIMITS IT'S MAXIMAL INTERNAL HARDDRIVE SPEED TO 75GB.

I took the drive and formatted it in another drive and moved it over.
Would not work.
Are you getting the idea? No cracks at my sister unless you can tell
me what the actual governoring mechanism is...

Thanks thought Terry


--
bdubslawman