80 GB Looking Like 8, A Drama In Real Life. A Computer Slower Than Molasses.
The sole computer in this house, a 1997 Dell, has been steadily on the downhill road due to a exhausted hard drive with minimal disc space available for it to do it's necessary virtual memory swapping thing it does and thus it runs slowly. Oooohhhh soooooo sloooooowwwwwly. So I'm in the middle of surgery to augment with Gigs galore to store pictures, video, and more...and to free the system hard drive up for system stuff. Like actually running.
Here's the current situation. Dell Dimensions XPS D233. BIOS A04. New Western Digital 80GB Hard Drive installed on existig EIDE as new Slave to existing hard drive Master. BIOS recognizes drive as slave, but only 8400 MB (8.4 GB, I believe). Win 2K is yet to see it. The 8.4 GB Barrier doesn't seem to be a new problem and they've got some answers.
Looks like I could use a BIOS upgrade to recognize the size, and a Data Lifeguard which must be run to format / ready the hard drive for use (I guess). Just need to create a couple of floppy boot disks to get both of those installed and runing, oh
MY FLOPPY IS NOT WORKING! Now I'm totally hosed because none of the vendors mentions how you do this if you boot from your CD-ROM drive. Can I create a bootable CD? What files to I need on it for the BIOS Upgrade? What files do I need on it for the new drive formatting / readying / whatever? Ugh. Help!
I guess this isn't going to happen tonight, or anytime soon based on my current freetime during the week. Let's see if this very necessary surgery can be completed piece meal. It only gets harder, pushing this old horse further. OK. Closing shop for the night.
12:07:15 AM 
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