Raymond,

The jumpers on the hard drive only identify that it is the only drive,
master drive, or slave drive.  There is no hardware setting to control
the "size" of the disk.

Assuming your BIOS and/or HDD controller can handle the larger drive size
.......
There ARE software solutions that can allow you to claim/recover the rest
of the drive's storage space without damaging the currently installed
software.
Most notably, Partition Magic, but there are other products that do the
same.

Even if your system can not deal with a larger drive, Partition Magic will
allow you to create a second "logical" drive from the unused portion.

Jim Meagher

----- Original Message -----
From: "Raymond Keirn" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 3:30 AM
Subject: [PCBUILD] To move a harddrive.


> Raymond K here , System is Packard bell multimedia R515, 200MHz Pros ,32Mg
ram
> 2.1Gb Hdd connected to motherboard . The original Hdd was a Ultra DMA
3.2Gb
> I am asumming factory set to 2.1Gb , Changed somewear to a Fujitsu 3.2Gb
Also
> set to 2.1 Gb . Is it possible to move this harddrive to a new controller
card
> and change the jumper settings to take advantage of the full size of the
> hdd without destroying my operating sys. I only have a Rescue disk and
matching
> floppy to use. I am going to be adding a new Hdd -bigger- later on and
would like a hardware workaround for the bios instead of overlay software .
Would this new card be able to help me with my current Hdd or is it to late.
It is Fat32 with the newest bios update they had . Sorry for any incorrect
info. Thanks from ray.
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