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I recently got a Dell Latitude CP for nothing. I has a IBM DTCA 24090 hard
drive which is 4 GB. I noticed that the drive had been partitioned into 2, 2 GB partitions. I fdisked the drive and fdisk shows that 3.9 GB are available. However, when I format the drive, only 2 GB is formatted. I ran an utility on the drive called slate which will remove all partitions. It successfully removed the 1st partition but can't remove the 2nd one. It stated that there was a read error on it. Is it possible to use a utility to remove all of the partitions (1 &2) and get the total 4 gb back? It looks like the drive is fine. I was able to format and read the 2nd partition before I fdisked the drive. Also I would like to upgrade the drive to a larger one. The BIOS is A12. Max size of new hard drive? Suggestions? Is still possible to get drives for this laptop? Thanks. -- _____________________________ Later. Have a better one. D.E. To email me back, remove "forget.the.spam" |
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".D.E" wrote in message news:K6Ush.777688$R63.388138@pd7urf1no... I recently got a Dell Latitude CP for nothing. I has a IBM DTCA 24090 hard drive which is 4 GB. I noticed that the drive had been partitioned into 2, 2 GB partitions. I fdisked the drive and fdisk shows that 3.9 GB are available. However, when I format the drive, only 2 GB is formatted. I ran an utility on the drive called slate which will remove all partitions. It successfully removed the 1st partition but can't remove the 2nd one. It stated that there was a read error on it. Is it possible to use a utility to remove all of the partitions (1 &2) and get the total 4 gb back? It looks like the drive is fine. I was able to format and read the 2nd partition before I fdisked the drive. Also I would like to upgrade the drive to a larger one. The BIOS is A12. Max size of new hard drive? Suggestions? Is still possible to get drives for this laptop? Thanks. You should be able to delete both partitions using fdisk; the primary DOS partition and the extended partition. Delete both, recreate the primary partition (3.9gb) and format it. You wouldn't happen to be attempting to install Windows 95 on the machine, would you? |
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"S.Lewis" wrote in message ... ".D.E" wrote in message news:K6Ush.777688$R63.388138@pd7urf1no... I recently got a Dell Latitude CP for nothing. I has a IBM DTCA 24090 hard drive which is 4 GB. I noticed that the drive had been partitioned into 2, 2 GB partitions. I fdisked the drive and fdisk shows that 3.9 GB are available. However, when I format the drive, only 2 GB is formatted. I ran an utility on the drive called slate which will remove all partitions. It successfully removed the 1st partition but can't remove the 2nd one. It stated that there was a read error on it. Is it possible to use a utility to remove all of the partitions (1 &2) and get the total 4 gb back? It looks like the drive is fine. I was able to format and read the 2nd partition before I fdisked the drive. Also I would like to upgrade the drive to a larger one. The BIOS is A12. Max size of new hard drive? Suggestions? Is still possible to get drives for this laptop? Thanks. You should be able to delete both partitions using fdisk; the primary DOS partition and the extended partition. Delete both, recreate the primary partition (3.9gb) and format it. You wouldn't happen to be attempting to install Windows 95 on the machine, would you? Sounds like regular FAT, not even FAT32. That's the limit of a FAT disk |
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..D.E wrote: I recently got a Dell Latitude CP for nothing. I has a IBM DTCA 24090 hard drive which is 4 GB. I noticed that the drive had been partitioned into 2, 2 GB partitions. I fdisked the drive and fdisk shows that 3.9 GB are available. However, when I format the drive, only 2 GB is formatted. I ran an utility on the drive called slate which will remove all partitions. It successfully removed the 1st partition but can't remove the 2nd one. It stated that there was a read error on it. Is it possible to use a utility to remove all of the partitions (1 &2) and get the total 4 gb back? It looks like the drive is fine. I was able to format and read the 2nd partition before I fdisked the drive. Also I would like to upgrade the drive to a larger one. The BIOS is A12. Max size of new hard drive? Suggestions? Is still possible to get drives for this laptop? 1) Hard drive limits are rarely published. Common ones: 8GB, 32GB,128GB, 137GB 2) If fdisk couldn't delete the partition because of a read error, that's not good. Diagnose the hard drive with the manufacturer's tool. Seatools from seagate will do in a pinch. There are ways of nuking the drive regardless, though. http://dban.sourceforge.net/ 3) Yes. Secondhand. You may run into issues with new hard drives, i would recommend a bios update if you have to replace your hard drive with a new one. Latest bios is a16 http://support.dell.com/support/down...6129&vercnt=12 a13 17. Fixed the issue in which the drive capacity for some large hard disk drives would be incorrectly reported by the BIOS. The run-me file it talks about is registry entries for win98 first edition. it you're starting form scratch, you need not worry. |
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On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:01:07 -0500, "Tom Scales"
wrote: Sounds like regular FAT, not even FAT32. That's the limit of a FAT disk Yes -- that's the problem, it's regular FAT. I remember when my 4G Pentium 133 was my "dream machine", and the FAT limit was 2G. |
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Thanks. I forgot to set the drive to use large files. A format later and I
have 4 gb. Now to upgrade the drive. 40 gb, 60 gb possible? I recently flashed the bios to A16. How large of a hard drive can I install? Thanks. ".D.E" wrote in message news:K6Ush.777688$R63.388138@pd7urf1no... I recently got a Dell Latitude CP for nothing. I has a IBM DTCA 24090 hard drive which is 4 GB. I noticed that the drive had been partitioned into 2, 2 GB partitions. I fdisked the drive and fdisk shows that 3.9 GB are available. However, when I format the drive, only 2 GB is formatted. I ran an utility on the drive called slate which will remove all partitions. It successfully removed the 1st partition but can't remove the 2nd one. It stated that there was a read error on it. Is it possible to use a utility to remove all of the partitions (1 &2) and get the total 4 gb back? It looks like the drive is fine. I was able to format and read the 2nd partition before I fdisked the drive. Also I would like to upgrade the drive to a larger one. The BIOS is A12. Max size of new hard drive? Suggestions? Is still possible to get drives for this laptop? Thanks. -- _____________________________ Later. Have a better one. D.E. To email me back, remove "forget.the.spam" |
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On Jan 23, 9:15 pm, ".D.E." wrote: Thanks. I forgot to set the drive to use large files. A format later and I have 4 gb. Now to upgrade the drive. 40 gb, 60 gb possible? I recently flashed the bios to A16. How large of a hard drive can I install? Dell's documentation doesn't say. Fwiw, one drive seller is selling 120GB drives for that unit. Thanks. ".D.E" wrote in messagenews:K6Ush.777688$R63.388138@pd7urf1no... I recently got a Dell Latitude CP for nothing. I has a IBM DTCA 24090 hard drive which is 4 GB. I noticed that the drive had been partitioned into 2, 2 GB partitions. I fdisked the drive and fdisk shows that 3.9 GB are available. However, when I format the drive, only 2 GB is formatted. I ran an utility on the drive called slate which will remove all partitions. It successfully removed the 1st partition but can't remove the 2nd one. It stated that there was a read error on it. Is it possible to use a utility to remove all of the partitions (1 &2) and get the total 4 gb back? It looks like the drive is fine. I was able to format and read the 2nd partition before I fdisked the drive. Also I would like to upgrade the drive to a larger one. The BIOS is A12. Max size of new hard drive? Suggestions? Is still possible to get drives for this laptop? http://www.drivesolutions.com/cgi-bi...d&itemid=dll79 They're charging too much for the small drives. Thanks. -- _____________________________ Later. Have a better one. D.E. To email me back, remove "forget.the.spam" |
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