I have upgraded my pentium 2 from 8gb to
80gb but in the c drive it still only registers
8gb. Any help appreciated

in the bios or in windows ? have you formatted the drive ???

Didn't many older systems have an 8.3Gb drive limitation?
I think a bios update is required

duh

hi kimbo the original was 8.4gb how do I add a bios
update

hi steve how do I format the drive & bios update????

Run This to identify what motherboard you have to up-date the bios, and post back the results.

How to format a Harddrive

down load this program to your PC
then double click on it and put a new floppy in floppy drive
it makes a bootable floppy for yoy the power your PC
with the floppy in the drive and follow the instruction.
it also gives you option to copy one drive to the next.:
Maxblast disk utility (Generic )
do not use it with Packard Bell computers.
it over writes DMI in BIOS

thanks ben but mine is a packard bell so not much use

hi davey motherboard Id 61-0908-001169-00111111-0
name MSI MS-6119 Bus type Intel GTL+ Manufacturer
Micro-star International

Here is the Link for flashing your bios and also the manual.

Please do read before attempting to flashing your bios

Hi Maisie,

and i bet you thought it would be easy duh what the ladz have said above is all correct, what you do depends on how you want to set the pc up, plus i'll give you another option. if you can then tell us what you want to do, we'll guide you through it.

you don't say what happened to the origial drive, if it is still working ok and there's room in the case you can run the 80gb drive as a slave i.e. in addition to the 8.4gb drive.

next would be to use the 80gb drive and just install an operating system, e.g. win 98 or win xp on there, for that you will need a copy of the operating system you want to install.

lastly, you can use your pb recovery disks with the 80gb drive, make sure you have them all, and restore the pc as to how it was when you bought it.

if you would let us know what you want to do, we can instruct you from there.

HI steve the 80gb was put in place of the 8.4gb i have just restored the pc to how it was when i bought it then upgraded it to windows m.e. youre right i did think it was going to be easy but finding it very hard so if you can instruct me on the easiest way

maisie, sorry. more questions, do you just want to go straight onto m.e. or do you want all the pb stuff as well ???

hi steve straight on to m.e. i think but wich ever is easiest
for a complete novice to handle!!!! i bought x.p.but cant get the internet so have reverted to m.e. sorry havent answered before but been busy this weekend

When you tried xp you probably couldn't access the internet because you didn't have an xp driver for your modem. Most pb's come with aztech smilnk modems. You can download the driver from www.smlink.com. Obviously you'd have to download it while you've got an active internet connection while it has a different version of windows or use another pc. Once downloaded copy the driver to a cd and then once you put xp on then install that driver. This is all of course if you want to have xp on the system.

Maisie did everything work apart from the internet when you had XP installed?

If you can get thru' any probs with XP it's a far better OS.

hi chrisb yes everthing worked except the internet

hi poque will try that tomorrow let you know if it works

hi poque downloaded the modem driver as u suggested
but still couldnt get the internet on X.P. it solved the
upgrade problem that shows up correct on X.P. but had to delete the X.P. to get back on line

Which modem are you using Masie?

Did you have the 2000/XP driver?

hi chrisb i downloaded the modem from www.smlink.com
as recomended by poque it is named as SLA56-V4.00.05-MV-WIN2K-XP.zip i dont now if its the right one but still cant get internet on xp everything else works

ok so you opened that file once you had upgraded to xp. Must have a rare pb machine that doesn't have an Aztech CNR modem. Has the modem ever been replaced over the years?

When you had the original version of windows on it , in device manager what was the modem called?

post back the s/n of that pb machine and i'll find out exactly what modem you have.

hi poque the modem has never been replaced in device
manager it is down as HCF MODEM MDP3858V-E MODEM

Try the winxp(PCI), HCF modem drivers on this site unless anyone else can provide a better driver.

http://www.conexant.com/support/md_drivera...assistance.html

thanks a million poque every thing sorted got the internet on x.p. and the original problem is sorted as well

p take a bow !!!

Dont think i'll do that in case someone see's my bald spot after all this