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80G drive in 8880?

post #1 of 14
5/14/04 at 3:56pm
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I am attempting to upgrade from my 60G to 80G drive as the main drive.

The 80G has been functioning fine in Drive 1 as f:

I used Partition Magic to move the 60G data to the 80g and that worked and all files are present and accounted for. Not sure what the disk should look like, but it appears as a small unallocated partition and one big NTFS partition.

But when I put the 80G in drive 0, it doesn't boot.

Key info: the BIOS reports the 80G as being 14495MB. It does this whether it is in drive 0 or drive 1. Remember it works fine in drive 1. (a 64MB boundary problem?)

I have attempted to write a new MBR and BOOT info from the W2K console with FIXMBR and FIXBOOT. That appears to work and the W2K CD has no problem finding the data on the 80G drive in drive 0.

In short, everything works except for the booting which just stops dead.

My BIOS is version 1.17.01. Can't seem to ftp to the clevo site to seee if there is a newer one, but another thread reported an even older version there.

Anyone got further suggestions?
Is anyone successfully booting an 80G drive?
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post #2 of 14
5/14/04 at 3:59pm
Do you have 2 HDDs in the machine? Was the 80GB recently added? What does the manual say about the "cable select" when using multiple drives?
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post #3 of 14
5/14/04 at 4:24pm
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The 80G used to be drive 1. I have moved it to drive 0. (and back since it won't boot there). When it is in the drive 1 bay, the jumper on the drive selects drive 1. When in 0, I remove the jumper. I don't think it is a jumper issue as the drive is recognized by utilities like partition Magic and the W2K installation/recovery CD in either bay.

The manual makes no reference to jumpers.
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post #4 of 14
5/14/04 at 4:50pm
Not sure. Normally this indicates that the "boot drive selected" and the "FDISK Active Partition" are not aligned properly. DOes Partition Magic (I haven't used it) prep the drive to be a "boot drive?
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post #5 of 14
5/15/04 at 3:51am
Omaha's got it.

In Partition Magic theres an option to "Set Active"

You need to do this or else the drive won't boot.

As a fun side note WIN2K is especially picky when you move/copy/image it to another partition/HD.
I've had the best results when I make the new partition the same exact size as the old one.
Make sure it boots and everything is working ok, then use PartMagic to resize the partition to whatever size.
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post #6 of 14
5/18/04 at 7:20pm
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Finally received a new BIOS update from Sager (1.08) and now the drive is recognized as 80G. The old BIOS was part of the problem.

The partition with W2K has always been "Set Active" by PM. Have checked several times.

W2K CD repair console will see the folders and files fine. Tried FIXMBR and FIXBOOT again and that executed normally, but didn't help. Probably time to reformat the drive from scratch and start over. Perhaps the old BIOS created a problem? I will also create a 60G partition so that I can copy to the same size.

Thanks all. I'll let you know...
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post #7 of 14
5/20/04 at 11:18am
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Success at last!

Used Norton Ghost to clone the failing 60G to the new 80G last night.

Don't know what combination of the BIOS and Partition Magic 7 was to blame for the earlier failures, but now all is well and working.

FYI: The Toshiba 60G drive has a 3 year full replacement warranty. If you experience a failing Toshiba HD, go to http://www.pcs-sj.com/rma.htm and fill in the form to get an RMA number. This is the second drive I have replaced in this computer. Sager replaced the first one. Now this one is out of Sager's warranty but still in Toshiba's.
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post #8 of 14
8/25/04 at 3:13am
hi,
I have exactly the same problem with my notebook 8880. Could you send me the bios update please? How such BIOS update works? Thank you very much, because I am searching for a long time and did not found any solution for this problem.

thank you very much,

regards ChezTommy
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post #9 of 14
8/25/04 at 7:59am
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ChezTommy,

please email TechSupport@SagerNotebook.com for the update.

1. It may have been updated again since May.
2. You should understand what a BIOS update is and how to install it before doing it. You can render your 8880 useless if you screw up.

Geo
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post #10 of 14
8/25/04 at 10:46am

done ...

I already contact sager, but they did not send me the bios update. I think because my notebook is not a sager notebook, but a clevo 8880. The bios is the same. Clevo Tech Support said to me, that they did not have a bios update ?! Thats why I look arround for alternatives .... What should I do?
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post #11 of 14
10/22/04 at 2:41pm
hello, thanks for me forwarding the last bios for the 8880, I board not Sager but a kenitek and not of support I seeks has to put a 80gb above and a CPU 2.8 ghz thank you very much, excuses me of my English google translation



ragniania@voila.fr
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post #12 of 14
10/23/04 at 7:43am

help bios 8880

help please
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post #13 of 14
10/24/04 at 11:04am
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Originally Posted by plililand
help please
This is the newest one I could find. Scroll down to '8880 Dream Machine'

http://www.eurocom.com/support/drivers/old_bios.html

If you need a newer BIOS then that one, contact your reseller.
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post #14 of 14
10/25/04 at 3:57am

help please bios 8880

thank you very much but the bios 1.06 I have it already, not good it is necessary for the 1.08 minimum to me thank you when same.
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