Why wont my laptop recognise a new hard drive?

[tinfish]

Hi,

I have a Mitac 5024 laptop (circa 1997) with an 850mb hard drive. I recently tried to replace the old drive with a new Fujitsu 3.3 gig, but the Bios wouldn't recognise it. I suspected this problem could related to the "850mb barrier" and so I tried running Disk Manager to overcome it, but Disk manager seems to need a drive already detected before it will do anything. (I only have room for one hard drive).

Question: Do I need to upgrade my Bios in order to get it to recognise the larger hard drive, or is there a less risky option?

Thanks for your time,

Ron

 

[alex304]

just one question....Why can't you put the 3.3Gig drive in and run the disk manager from the floppy???

Alex

 

[tinfish]

Thanks for your reply, Alex.

The instructions with Disk Manager (Go Disk) say "go into Windows first and then reboot" ...and obviously I cant get the 3.2gig running in order to get into Windows. But I think I see what you mean. Are you saying that the DiskManager floppy should boot be into dos, and from there it should recognise the new Hdrive?

Thanks again,

Ron

 

[warmongr]

Can I answer that for you alex304?

yes.