You might try cloning the drive. the 3.3 to the 20.
Jimmy Hodges
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Geoffrey" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 8:30 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] 20gb h/d in PB club40B(tatto.exe)Help Please.


> Hi All,
>
> Any Packard Bell Computer Experts out there ?
>
> A few days ago I bought a new 20gb WD205BA H/D
> to replace the 3.3gb Fujitsu drive in my Packard Bell
> (Club 40B)Computer, it has a Media Trainer-2 Pegasus
> (biostar motherboard) Sis5598 Chipset,
> Award Bios V4.51PG the bios number on bootup is
> 2A5IIB0B.  The motherboard will support LBA,
> but only UDMA33,  the O/S is Windows98.
>
> I set the bios to Auto Detect the drives, configured
> the 3.3gb drive as primary master and my new drive as
> primary slave, both drives were on the same cable IDE1.
> I then put the DLGTOOLS disk in drive A: switched on
> the computer, selected EZ-Install and followed the
> on screen prompts, all seemed ok, I thought I had an
> Image copy of my 3.3gb drive, as the screen prompt said
>  " Hard Drive Setup Complete, Partitioned/Formatted
> and ready for use, Press ESC to restart computer", I then
> switched off the computer, disconnected both drives and
> reinstalled the WD205BA with jumpers set as Single
> Drive, I wanted to finish up with 1 partition on the drive,
> removed the DLGTOOLS disk from drive A: and rebooted
> the computer.  The screen came up with "Disk Write Error"
>
> I have temporary reinstalled the 3.3gb drive, all is working
> ok, as has been for the last 2 years.
>
> Have never had problems upgrading or fitting hard drives
> before in other makes of computers, but this
> Packard Bell, has me beat !
>
> I am not sure, but I think Packard Bell Computers install
> hidden data config files (tattoo.exe ?) in sectors on the
> hard disk which the Bios looks for on bootup and if
> installing from the PB master CD,s
>
> Wonder if anyone has had the same problem upgrading
> a Packard Bell Computer with a Larger Hard Drive ?
> if so, I would be very interested to now how you got over
> the problem and how you transfered the (tatoo.exe) and
> config files to the new Hard Disk ? ?
>
> Any advice appreciated,
>
> Thank you,
>
> Richard.
>
> Norwich, England.
>
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