Wally, please ignore my BIOS recommendation then, if this computer has
had a similar problem in the past.
The low level format is very safe, I have done it numerous times. And
you do not necessarily have to run it over 100% of the drive (it takes a
long time to this on a big drive like yours), a minimum of 2% is fine to
restore the drive to the original factory specifications. XP's format
system won't do it right, you must do a low level format.
In fact I did a low level on a 340 mb drive in an old 486 recently, like
new now.
HTH
Peter Kaulback
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Peter:
Please see my reply to Hugh for my
main objective in asking for help. It was getting
the hard drive back to its "box" condition.
Upgrading the BIOS seems to be the direct
way to get the PC and the hard drive compatible
and I will try that. The BIOS failed several years
ago within the PC three year warrantee and
the PC manufacturer replaced it.
That 1054 was not a typo. I read it wrong during
the POST. I checked it again and it was s1854.
The eyes are going before the fingers.
Wally
On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 15:48:44 -0500 Peter Kaulback
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Wally, you need to upgrade the BIOS, it currently is at 1.07
http://www.tyan.com/archive/support/html/b_s1854.html for the
Trinity
400. I hope you had a typo in saying it's a 1054.
This is a BIOS limitation and hopefully it is resolved with an
update,
if not then do contact Tyan.
Or you may have to partition the drive into smaller pieces, say 5
partitions.
HTH
Peter Kaulback
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need some advice..
My son has a Pentium III at 600Mh computer with a
Tyan S1054 Trinity 400
and an Award Plug and play Bios extension 1.0A
1999 by Award software.
with an operating 40 Gb hard drive with Win 98 SE.
He purchased a Seagate 160 Gb EID hard drive
and attempted to install it using the Seagate install
wizard and Seagate tools. He intended to make this
drive the master boot drive with a new operating
system. The other drive would be formatted and
become a slave.
After running the Seagate Wizard and Seagate
tools the drive now is a 32 Gb drive and there seams to
be no way to change it using the Seagate Wizard
or tools.
The seagate help desk says that the problem is the
limitation of the computer bios and if we want to
use the drive in an other computer at its full
capacity, we need to do a Low Level format.
This involves filling the disk with zero's.
The Seagate tools changed the size value that
the bios sees for the drive. Why can't that
value be changed to the true size of the drive?
What can be done to get this drive back to
its "new" condition?
Wally
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