| From: | Colin Wenzel |
| Date: | 23 May 2000 at 03:08:14 |
| Subject: | Re: NewDrive |
On 23-May-00, Duane A. Miller wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just bought a new 4.0 gig drive for my 1200 030. I unplugged the
> CD-Rom drive and replaced it with the new HD. I brought up HDTool box
> and it saw it. I installed it, and set the numbers, such as head and
> cyl. tho what the drive said, rather than what came up in the install
> box. I then went to partition the drive, and it said it was 4.0 gigs,
> but when I partitioned it, it was about twice that big. Anyway, I set
> up the partitions and saved them and had the 1200 reboot. I can hear,
> occationally, the new drive running, but no icons. I went to Sysinfo
> and Opus and it wasn't there either. I brought up HDTool Box again,
> and it was still there. I would like to copy everything from my old
> drive to the new one, and then take the old one out of my system, but
> untill I can see it, that is a problem. Any help would be
> appreciated. Thanks
>
> Auf Wienerschnitzel
Regards
First, they are not going to give you a drive that is
twice the size as marked, that should have been the first clue.
Use the *V3.1* HDToolbox & set up the drive type with that first.
DO NOT Use the v3.5 one, it has trouble in that area.
Just establish the drive type & save,
then do the partitioning with the new one.
Don't forget:
Update the filesystem to 45.1
Set the MaxTransfer to: 0x001fe00
Set the Block size to 1024...
PS: Ignore the drive config numbers with v3.1 HDToolbox
if the drive is bigger than 4 gig. (they will be nonsence)
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