harddrivecleaner@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I know I'm not the first person to observe this, but
> LILO is starting up with L 01 01 01 01... on my older
> laptop after I put my 40 gig hard drive in it.
> The drive had worked just fine in a newer laptop.
> I really prefer the older machine.

Older bioses can't recognise the geometry of 40G drives. I had this
trouble with a desktop, but I went to the bios's manufacturer web site
and discovered that I could download a new bios for a few tens of
dollars. Fixed the problem and works fine. Put the small drive back,
upgrade the bios, then reinstall your big drive.

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