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C. Presario 7QSM11 (7000z-series) Installed a new 120GB HD but cant see more than 23G
Hello Wow, where has this website been? So glad I found it! I am having some problems with a Compaq Presario 7QSM11 (7000z series), Windows ME OS. Its my sisters computer and she brought it to me with a dead hard drive. I picked up a new WD 120GB Caviar (old drive was a WD 60GB). Set the jumpers to cable select as that is how the dead drive was configured. First thing I did was flash the bios to the latest (3/28/02 - 786K2 ROM family). I checked the bios, and it sees the whole 120GB hard drive. Then I ran fdisk from a Windows ME boot disk. It would only see 23795MB of the hard drive. I tried using the Compaq Quick Restore disks after deleting the original partition. Once ME was up and running, I checked and Windows also only saw 23.## GB. I have no idea what is going on and am still waiting on a response from Compaq/HP. I thought it might have a hidden D: drive eating up the rest of the space, and so I tried a program from the Compaq/HP site to delete that partition and to resize the C:...but no D: drive was present. I went to bootdisk.com and tried to use their 98 fdisk program for drives over 64GB, but it just gave me errors, no matter what system I tried to use it on. I really am clueless. Look I can't promise you a date with my sister, but she'll probably be really happy if you can help. JK Thank you for all help -- bdubslawman |
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bdubslawman wrote:
Hello Wow, where has this website been? So glad I found it! I am having some problems with a Compaq Presario 7QSM11 (7000z series), Windows ME OS. Its my sisters computer and she brought it to me with a dead hard drive. I picked up a new WD 120GB Caviar (old drive was a WD 60GB). Set the jumpers to cable select as that is how the dead drive was configured. First thing I did was flash the bios to the latest (3/28/02 - 786K2 ROM family). I checked the bios, and it sees the whole 120GB hard drive. Then I ran fdisk from a Windows ME boot disk. It would only see 23795MB of the hard drive. I tried using the Compaq Quick Restore disks after deleting the original partition. Once ME was up and running, I checked and Windows also only saw 23.## GB. I have no idea what is going on and am still waiting on a response from Compaq/HP. I thought it might have a hidden D: drive eating up the rest of the space, and so I tried a program from the Compaq/HP site to delete that partition and to resize the C:...but no D: drive was present. I went to bootdisk.com and tried to use their 98 fdisk program for drives over 64GB, but it just gave me errors, no matter what system I tried to use it on. I really am clueless. Look I can't promise you a date with my sister, but she'll probably be really happy if you can help. JK Thank you for all help You were creating a Primary DOS partition? The last step is Do you wish to use the maximum available size for a primary DOS partition and make the partition active (Y/N) What did you choose? Q |
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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 |
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