Posted by DAN on January 18, 19101 at 22:20:21:
In Reply to: Old computer , new hard drive posted by Keith McCormick on January 18, 19101 at 11:18:58:
WHAT 486 IS IT,,IF IT'S 486 80 OR LATER IT
SHOULD SUPPORT IT,,LOOK FOR A LBA SETTING AND ENABLE IT,,ALSO THINK IT HAS TO BE WIN 95B OR LATER
TO ALSO SUPPORT IT,,DOS AND WIN 311 WILL STOP AT
540 MEG,,YOU WILL NEED A WIN 95B OR LATER FLOPPY
BOOT DISK WITH FORMAT.COM,,FDISK.EXE,,SYS.COM ,THESE FILES ARE UNDER WINDOWS\COMMAND,,AND ANY OTHER FILE YOU MAY NEED ON THE FLOPPY,,WITH THE HARD DRIVE SET UP IN BIOS,,BOOT WITH THE FLOPPY
AND SELECT THE OPTION IT WILL OFFER RE LARGE DRIVE SUPPORT,,DELETE ANY PREVIOUS PARTITION OF ANY,,AND PARTITION THE HARD DRIVE,,BE SURE TO SET DRIVE C ACTIVE,,IT'S UNDER ONE OF THE OPTIONS
IN FDISK,,REBOOT OFF THE FLOPPY AND FORMAT THE DRIVE,,THEN TYPE SYS C:,,HIT ENTER,,NOW TYPE CHK DSK [HIT ENTER] YO CAN SEE THE SIZE OF THE HARD DRIVE
DAN
: I am trying to help a Lady with her old Compaq 486 computer . Her hard
: drive is bad and I have a WD 1.6 Gig she can have . But the computer
: wants to format it at 550 Megs . I know this can be fixed but I have not helped on such an old computer before . Thank you . Keith