Re: new HD: can only see 8gb of 10

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Mon Nov 01 1999 - 02:19:36 EST

Andrew..

1. are you sure its a 10gig and not an 8gig..??
2. have you the latest bios..??
3. have you calculated the size 10,000,000,000 bytes into gig a bytes..??
i.e. divide by 1024 to find the real capacity..?? :-)
(i know, it would be more than 8gigs, but i HAD to remind you of that
little fiction)
4. what OS, how was it set up in the first place..??

and, in any event, PQM v. 4 sure should report the correct capacity..

note: there is a nagging thought just below the rather mushy surface of
what passes for my brain.. :-)

Andrew Webber wrote:

> I've got my new 10gig HD in the ultraslimbay and I'm playing with
> it with Partition Magic v4.
>
> No matter what I do, it reports only 8047.2MB. Is this a
> limitation of my TP600? Is there some way to get at the other 2gb?
> I don't care if it's a separate partition. IBM's site seems mute
> on this subject.
>
> Thanks!
>
> andrew
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