New Hard Drive Setup Issues (Is there no hope? Should I take the hard drive back to the store and just use my second hard drive as the new master?)
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My hard drive crashed and so I got a replacement.
I set the BIOS settings to [AUTO] but I wonder if that was the smartest thing to do.
The size that it displayed seemed to be a little low. I am wondering if maybe I should have done something other than set the BIOS to automatic determine the settings for the new hard drive.
I suspect I did something wrong because when I have tried to install the Ubuntu Operating System it is stuck on 36 % when formating and/or configuring the hard drive.
How do I go about making the BIOS hard drive settings by hand?
I do think there is something screwy going on. I have two hard drives in the system. The old slave drive BIOS settings has this:
CHS CAPACITY 8422 MB
MAX LBA CAPACITY 120034 MB
The new master hard drive has this:
CHS CAPACITY 8422 MB
MAX LBA CAPACITY 8422 MB
I am wondering now is that maybe we have gone beyone what the old motherboard and BIOS cand handle for a the size of the hard drive. If so, maybe a partition is in order. What do you think?
The Hard Drive is a Western Digital PATA
320 GB
WD3200JBRTL
ULTRA DMA/100
8MB BUFFER 7200 RPM
if I do not get it running today, I think I will try using the old slave drive as the master drive.
The screen says, regarding the motherboard:
Award Medallion BIOS V6.0
COPYRIGHT (C) 1984-2001, Award Software, Inc.
ACPI BIOS Revision 1003. LV
Inter (R) Gleron (TM) 1200 MHz
Memory Test 261120K OK+ 1024 shared memory
and so on...
I think the motherboard cannot handle a 320 gig hard drive. Unless I can get some magic from you, I am going to take the new hard drive back to the store and swap out the old slave hard drive and make it the new master drive.
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My hard drive crashed and so I got a replacement.
I set the BIOS settings to [AUTO] but I wonder if that was the smartest thing to do.
The size that it displayed seemed to be a little low. I am wondering if maybe I should have done something other than set the BIOS to automatic determine the settings for the new hard drive.
I suspect I did something wrong because when I have tried to install the Ubuntu Operating System it is stuck on 36 % when formating and/or configuring the hard drive.
How do I go about making the BIOS hard drive settings by hand?
I do think there is something screwy going on. I have two hard drives in the system. The old slave drive BIOS settings has this:
CHS CAPACITY 8422 MB
MAX LBA CAPACITY 120034 MB
The new master hard drive has this:
CHS CAPACITY 8422 MB
MAX LBA CAPACITY 8422 MB
I am wondering now is that maybe we have gone beyone what the old motherboard and BIOS cand handle for a the size of the hard drive. If so, maybe a partition is in order. What do you think?
The Hard Drive is a Western Digital PATA
320 GB
WD3200JBRTL
ULTRA DMA/100
8MB BUFFER 7200 RPM
if I do not get it running today, I think I will try using the old slave drive as the master drive.
The screen says, regarding the motherboard:
Award Medallion BIOS V6.0
COPYRIGHT (C) 1984-2001, Award Software, Inc.
ACPI BIOS Revision 1003. LV
Inter (R) Gleron (TM) 1200 MHz
Memory Test 261120K OK+ 1024 shared memory
and so on...
I think the motherboard cannot handle a 320 gig hard drive. Unless I can get some magic from you, I am going to take the new hard drive back to the store and swap out the old slave hard drive and make it the new master drive.
