[Pc_Support] [OT for Linux] Problems upgrading BIOS on GTW WIN2K box ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

.... I have a GTW box, 1.6 GHz P4, w/ WIN2K, SP4 (upgraded this A.M.). I 
am trying to upgrade the BIOS so that it will recognize an also-new 200 
GB HDD that I added recently. When I 1st added the drive, WIN2K SP1 
would only recognize ~131 GB of it, not the whole thing. At that time, I 
just setup a ~131 GB partition & moved on. Now I want the whole 200 GB, 
so I upgraded WIN2K from SP1 to SP4 (supposedly necessary to get > 131 
GB HDD's recognized). I tried to setup the new drive from the newly 
upgraded WIN2K SP4 by deleting the old partition, but it (the drive 
setup wizard) still only said ~131 GB HDD, not 200 GB. Then I tried the 
BIOS upgrade. I followed the directions from GateWay exactly to create 
an upgrade floppy, but when I try to reboot, the screen says: 
"non-system disk or blank disk. Install new one & hit any key to 
restart". The floppy was/is a brand new, empty Sony floppy, just written 
to this A.M. for this purpose. Does this ring any bells w/ anyone ? TIA 
for any help ....


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	William A. Mahaffey III

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