First post, by henryVK
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Hello friends and neighbours,
since I saw someone on the Software board with a similar issue (I decided this is kind of a hardware issue but will gladly be redirected) I thought I'd bring this up –, so:
I have this Siemens PCD-4ND laptop with the original 820 or so Mb HDD, which works fine but is pretty loud and definitely the bottleneck of this whole setup.
I tried with a 40GB Toshiba HDD, which the machine recognizes as 8060 Mb (the BIOS limit, I assume). I also flashed the BIOS to the latest available version. However, booting from floppy, FDISK only recognizes a capacity of 4080 Mb and gives a negative size of "-287 Mb" and says there is no room to make a partition. I tried pre-partitioning the drive on my desktop PC to a FAT16/FAT32 primary with a size the laptop should be able to cope with, however, after I finish installing Windows 95 the laptop refuses to boot from drive C and gets stuck on the blinking cursor.
I would chalk it up to the BIOS not liking bigger HDDs, if not for the fact that this guy here did just that on the same type of laptop:
http://boginjr.com/electronics/old/pcd-4nd/
Maybe I got a bad drive (I did order another one for testing), but maybe there is something else I'm missing?
Any and all advice would be heavily appreciated 😀
Best regards,
Henry