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Old 11-22-2008, 10:38 AM   #7 (permalink)
blah789
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Re: "New" Harddrive in a PII - Won't Boot from Floppy or CD-Rom

I think one of the suggestions above is right when they said to switch to floppy.
When you select "removable drive" it usually refers to a ZIP drive, or superdisk drive.

How much of the 80GB drive was recognized? I'm not even sure all the 80GB could be recognized. The lines
Quote:
LBA Format
Total Sectors: 156301488
Maximum Capacity: 65535 MB
suggest the maximum capacity is 64GB. Although for whatever reason your drive has around 8GB detected.
The old capacity limit in those days was 32GB. You had to flash the BIOS to get it to recognize drives over 32GB. If you couldn't do so, you would place a jumper in the back of the drive to force it act like a 32GB drive. The jumper was called CLJ (cylinder limitation jumper). On some drives (hitachi) it might be called 32GB cap. Look at the documentation for your drive. I see the page for the WD800BB is here
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=10
If you click specifications, then look on the bottom left, you should find a few manuals in pdf format. One of them is sure to have jumper settings.
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