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Re: how to determine hd partitioning?



On January 20, 2003 02:32 pm, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:

> Only problem is... the disk is a 40GB drive, and this older machine can
> only handle drives up to 32GB. While I can see the partitioning and
> access a good portion of the disk, I cannot get a large chunk of the
> data off it that I need. I guess that'll teach me to back up to a hard
> drive (instead of removable media)...

Check if your motherboard manufacturer has BIOS updates for your board.  When 
I recently ran into the same problem I was pleasantly surprised to find out 
that ASUS had updates available to support large drives even though the board 
was approaching 4 years of age (perhaps even 5).

Fraser



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