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On 27/10/2011 13:03, George Parker wrote:
On 27/10/11 12:17, Julian Hall wrote:Thank you chaps. There is a BIOS update but this is a microsoft EXE file, of course. Has anyone tried updating a bios using a virtual OS, in my case winXP in VirtualBox?On 27/10/2011 11:55, tom wrote:I've had this with an old PC before.. the BIOS in that case would only recognise up to 32Gb (yes it was VERY old) so unless there is a BIOS upgrade that will recognise greater than 80Gb I suspect it's just going to sit there refusing to see the larger drive. As far as I know it's the overall physical drive capacity the BIOS looks at not the partition table, may be worth a try though.On 27/10/11 11:37, Julian Hall wrote:It may be possible to partition the drive up (via a cd rom or other machine) and then it may work?On 27/10/2011 08:27, George Parker wrote:IBM Thinkpad T42http://www.fixya.com/support/t1665591-thinkpad_t42_hard_disk_problem Maximum 80Gb according to this forum, sorry. JulianTom te tom te tomJulianGeorge
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1035372Exactly this question. Opinion seems divided, but I think the safe route would be to get a boot disk image from http://www.allbootdisks.com/ and have a go with that.
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