How can I get this computer to see my entire drive???

[Bobsled]

My problem is that my Asus P4T's MoBo BIOS (v1004) has a LBA maximum capacity of 33.82GB and my IBM HDD is 45GB. Therefore I'm only getting 33.8 gigs. BIOS version 1004 is the latest so flashing is not an option. I do have a Promise ULTRA100 TX2 (PCI) controller card available to me. But that thing hasn't been much help because the HDD always gets formatted and partitioned on the MoBo controller (LBA max. 33.8GB). If I try to format and partition the HDD on the Promise controller, the system won't even see the Promise card because there are no drivers for it on this "new bare HDD". Catch 22. Any help is appreciated. BTW, Win 98SE.

 

[Bobsled]

Bump!

 

[DJFuji]

Maybe i'm not understanding you, but you can't boot to dos and see the controller? Mine automatically sees it. Have you tried booting to the controller using "SCSI" as the bootup?

 

[Bobsled]

Are you saying when using a win (98SE) boot-up diskette with the controller card installed and a bare drive attached to that, the boot-up diskette (windows) will locate the hdd? This bare drive is the only hdd I have. I think I tried that and windows couldn't locate a hdd (I forget, I tried so many things). I'll try it again to be sure.

 

[DJFuji]

Hm. Try putting a CDROM drive on your controller card (IDE0) and booting from a CDROM by putting a Win CDROM in and specifying that you want to boot to "SCSI" in Bios. (controller card is seen by BIOS as SCSI). Connect your hard drive as a slave on IDE0 or as master on IDE1. After the system boots to CDROM, fdisk and format your HDD.

 

[Bobsled]

So you're saying use the CDROM as a fake second hard drive? I'll try that. Shouldn't the bare drive attached to the Promise card and set to boot-up to "SCSI" thing work tho? May have to try that again!

 

[DJFuji]

I wasn't sure if your HDD was bootable...i thought it might have been bare...thus no bootable partition. If it is bootable, try booting it through the controller card. Either way it should work. Win CD will auto-load tools for you, though