I am new to this forum, so please bear with me. I hope someone can give me some advice.
I replaced a 40GB IDE HD in my Dell Inspiron 4150 with a WD 250 GB EIDE drive. My Phoenix Technologies BIOS (version A04) does not recognize HD size except for 6375MB.
At first the drive worked well, but now I only get a black screen and blinking cursor, as if the drive cannot boot. I can get into the BIOS with F2 so that much is working. The drive is recognized but the "Primary Hard Drive" is still 6375 MB. When I swap out the new drive for the old original 40GB one everything works fine. If I connect the new WD drive via USB "enclosure" it works fine as a slave drive so I have not lost any data and can recover anything I need. It is recognized as another drive (E:\). I did not set this drive as a "slave" drive with jumpers, and I can access anything on it IF I an using the original 40GB HD as my internal C:\ drive.
What can I do to get BIOS to recognize the full size of the new 250GB HD? I also have a 160 GB drive and it does the same thing. Are these drives too big for what this "legacy" computer/BIOS/motherboard can handle? What did I do wrong or not do? Can this be made to work, and if so, how?
Thanks in advance.
I replaced a 40GB IDE HD in my Dell Inspiron 4150 with a WD 250 GB EIDE drive. My Phoenix Technologies BIOS (version A04) does not recognize HD size except for 6375MB.
At first the drive worked well, but now I only get a black screen and blinking cursor, as if the drive cannot boot. I can get into the BIOS with F2 so that much is working. The drive is recognized but the "Primary Hard Drive" is still 6375 MB. When I swap out the new drive for the old original 40GB one everything works fine. If I connect the new WD drive via USB "enclosure" it works fine as a slave drive so I have not lost any data and can recover anything I need. It is recognized as another drive (E:\). I did not set this drive as a "slave" drive with jumpers, and I can access anything on it IF I an using the original 40GB HD as my internal C:\ drive.
What can I do to get BIOS to recognize the full size of the new 250GB HD? I also have a 160 GB drive and it does the same thing. Are these drives too big for what this "legacy" computer/BIOS/motherboard can handle? What did I do wrong or not do? Can this be made to work, and if so, how?
Thanks in advance.