New Hard Drive Install?

[MoMan813]

Here is what I found out from DELL today...not much of anything....Part # 1W392, Processor, 80532, 2.4G, 512K, 533, SKN, CI 3T622, Assembly, Card (circuit), Planar (motherboard), 850E, Audio, Transformer, Sky Dive Minitower....hope his helps.....thanks

 

[Apokalipse]

what is the model?
desktop's = Dimension xxxx
Laptop's = Inspiron xxxx

 

[MoMan813]

Dimension 8200

 

[clearlyunaware]

hey, im having a similar problem with a maxtor 120gb i just bought, it sounds like it is your jumpers as on certain settings mine also caps at 33gb, if you simply remove the jumper it will default as slave, which should make it work..

 

[MoMan813]

Remove all the jumpers from the back?

 

[hilowe]

Yeah. What that does is put the hard drive into cable select mode. If you put the hard drive on the slave position of the IDE cable, the hard drive will automatically register as a slave drive. If you put the hard drive on the primary of the second IDE cable, it will register as a master.

I wold hold off on this, at least until you find out if there is a mobo BIOS update out there for your computer.

Edit:

I believe that I found a BIOS update. Before you download it, let someone else check and make sure that I've found the correct one. If it's not, you'll have a whole lot of fun trying to get your system up and running again.

http://support.dell.com/FileLib/Typ...EN&SvcTag=&SysID=DIM_PNT_P4_8200&DeviceID=308

 

[MoMan813]

So does anyone know if this might be the right thing, or will I have to call DELL? I hate dealing with them...lol....you almost always get someone who barely knows how to speak english, and sometimes I even wonder how much they even know about computers. Thanks.

 

[MoMan813]

What does format the hard drive in the NTFS mean and how do I do it?

 

[MoMan813]

Are you talking about when I run maxblaster to set up the new hard drive and it says partition type cause it already says Partition 1 Type NTFS 33.8 GB? If not, what boot to the CD are you talking about? Sorry, still a newb at some of this.

 

[ChaosBlizzard]

Dimension 8200

Here is the page on dells website that has the latest bios update for your system:

http://support.dell.com/FileLib/Typ...EN&SvcTag=&SysID=DIM_PNT_P4_8200&DeviceID=308



That's for the Dell 8200. I would check to see what version you have first before you update. The current release is A09.