[buug] Bios wont see HD

Al Plant webmaster at hawaiidakine.com
Sat Feb 25 17:19:22 PST 2006


My friend has a Dell Precision 420 with bios A-07. He wants to load DOS 
in a 2.x gig drive and use this box to replace an old 486 SX box he has 
with a program he needs for his business on it.
I looked at it and tried to get a 2.X gig  drive to be recognized but 
this Pentium 3 800 mz Dell box won't find it and the user bios settings 
won't stick above a 1000 MB drive.
Anyone know if a bios upgrade would fix this or is there a trick to 
force it to see the drive?

I had a similar problem trying to get a Dell Lap top to take a bigger HD
and didn't have any luck.

Thanks,

Al Plant

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