Update of Argh
May. 8th, 2004 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tiamatlady- Computer refuses to acknowledge more than 30 gig of my 160 gig drive. Yah yah I know I probably should have checked first. I was flush with power over the ease of CD drive install. I'm certain is has to do with my old computer and ancient BIOS. I am, however, at a loss as to how to make it better. *shrugs* It's not killing me, other than thinking how I'd like to have the cost of the HD in my pocket.
- I decide to walk away from my computer, and eat. I think I want Chicken Katsu, maybe an order of sushi from Fuji. But first I wanted ice cream. I'd purchased a huge tub of Vanilla Bean from BJ's, and hadn't made any kind of dent in it. The Unit said they'd been "eating some" but it was a bucket o'ice cream. I DO SAY WAS. It's gone. The bastards ATE ALL MY ICE CREAM. They must die now.
- All this anger is making me actually hungry. As I was hunting for the tub of ice cream, because obviously it must be hiding, I found the steaks I bought last week. OK, I'll still get the chicken, but later, I'll start with a piece or two of steak. I have a George Forman, I'll just throw em on. Well seems I didn't clean the thing last time. NP, get a sponge and the scraper - where's the scraper? And the fat catcher? Missing. These items have been NEXT TO THE SINK FOR MONTHS and are now, the instant I want to use it, missing. Cleaning the grill just became a HUGE problem. This is after I used soap on it and need the catcher to wash the soap out. I've done the best I could, but now I'm grumpy as hell and WILL taste soap on the food, no matter how clean I get the damn thing. So I put it aside.
Now I'm looking into ordering my chicken. I wanted to change, and haven't yet, and I haven't done anything with my day. I'm OK with this, I needed some down time, but I wanted it with ice cream and meat.
*grumble* The DAMN restaurant had better be open and I AM ordering sushi too!
- I decide to walk away from my computer, and eat. I think I want Chicken Katsu, maybe an order of sushi from Fuji. But first I wanted ice cream. I'd purchased a huge tub of Vanilla Bean from BJ's, and hadn't made any kind of dent in it. The Unit said they'd been "eating some" but it was a bucket o'ice cream. I DO SAY WAS. It's gone. The bastards ATE ALL MY ICE CREAM. They must die now.
- All this anger is making me actually hungry. As I was hunting for the tub of ice cream, because obviously it must be hiding, I found the steaks I bought last week. OK, I'll still get the chicken, but later, I'll start with a piece or two of steak. I have a George Forman, I'll just throw em on. Well seems I didn't clean the thing last time. NP, get a sponge and the scraper - where's the scraper? And the fat catcher? Missing. These items have been NEXT TO THE SINK FOR MONTHS and are now, the instant I want to use it, missing. Cleaning the grill just became a HUGE problem. This is after I used soap on it and need the catcher to wash the soap out. I've done the best I could, but now I'm grumpy as hell and WILL taste soap on the food, no matter how clean I get the damn thing. So I put it aside.
Now I'm looking into ordering my chicken. I wanted to change, and haven't yet, and I haven't done anything with my day. I'm OK with this, I needed some down time, but I wanted it with ice cream and meat.
*grumble* The DAMN restaurant had better be open and I AM ordering sushi too!
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Date: 2004-05-08 07:40 pm (UTC)In what way doesn't it recognise it, like can it recognise several partitions if they are each under 30GB, or can you not access more than 30GB at all?
If the latter, and you can't do a BIOS upgrade to fix it, it might be possible to get a hard drive controller card, which would at least be a lot cheaper than a whole new motherboard/CPU/etc? (I think it's the case that a hard drive card would get round BIOS/motherboard limitations, though I can't say for certain!)
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Date: 2004-05-08 07:49 pm (UTC)*sighs* I haven't actually tried playing with it, and i know I'm out of my league. I might page a geek to help me with it.
of course if YOU were to come visit.......
I want a new computer, at some point, it's no big, and it's certainly not happening now. Maybe I'm not doing something, and setting the partitions wrong. *shrugs* I'm not worrying about it now, I'll worry AFTER someone tells me it can't be fixed - and I'll sell this HD and buy a smaller one, or two.
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Date: 2004-05-09 01:14 am (UTC)What brand of hard drive is it?
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Date: 2004-05-09 12:44 pm (UTC)it's really neat - and install actually went great.
If you have any software ideas I'd love to hear it, although I'm willing to consider a hardware one, like
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Date: 2004-05-09 01:14 pm (UTC)http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/support/faqs/faqs_20001005_0000000041.htm
The program you need is at:
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/index.htm