PROBLEMCHYLD Posted August 15, 2011 Share Posted August 15, 2011 (edited) I have partition a 30gb hard to 20gb and less, yet and still my comapq armada 7380dmt won't read it.What can I do to solve this problem? I have the latest bios and updates installed. Edited August 16, 2011 by PROBLEMCHYLD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 What does the BIOS see ?What (device/ OS/ tool) do you boot from to partition the drive ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PROBLEMCHYLD Posted August 16, 2011 Author Share Posted August 16, 2011 The bios see's nothing. It wont boot at all. Its just a black screen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 That's quite an old system! Considering it comes with a 4GB drive.Does that HDD work in another PC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 Well, that's a bad start. Was it seeing the previous (smaller I suppose) HDD ? So, is the computer "known good" ? Is the drive "known good" ? Have you checked the jumper (if any, I reckon it's an old 2"5 IDE drive). If set to boot from HDD first, does it hang or boot next item (again, if any, floppy or cd). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PROBLEMCHYLD Posted August 16, 2011 Author Share Posted August 16, 2011 That's quite an old system! Considering it comes with a 4GB drive.Does that HDD work in another PC?yes it does. I have tryed many different hdd. Anything over 20gb will not work on the compaq. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen2 Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 You could use a drive overlay (most hard drive makers did their own) and you may also need to create a small first partition. What is the make of the new hard drive ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PROBLEMCHYLD Posted August 16, 2011 Author Share Posted August 16, 2011 HITACHI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allen2 Posted August 16, 2011 Share Posted August 16, 2011 As Ibm hardrive became Hitachi, i think the tools for ibm drives should work.Try disk manager 2000 (it should be able to install a dynamic drive overlay on your hitachi drive): the file you need is there.If it doesn't work you can still try HFT (Hitachi feature tool) to reduce the size of the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 About 11 years ago I also had to upgrade a 2Gig HDD in a Compaq Armada (1530 ??? 266MHz as well or even less). Compaq site was saying that up to 6Gig HDD was tested but my company sent me a 20Gig. I never got it to work. Bios was seeing 8Gig while partitionning programs (fdisk and Ranish PM) were seing something else. Whatever the size of the partition I was making, I could format it, make it active, but no boot. I ended up buying a 2nd hand 10Gig and it worked.Anyway, as long as your Bios sees nothing (by the way, if I remember, Bios User Interface was on the HDD itself or to be ran from floppy), there is no software workaround. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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