How best to get an old BIOS to see the full size of a big drive

[Brian Kelsay]

Have you thought of running qtparted or gparted on the drive?  If you are
running Ubuntu, you will have these available.  If not currently loaded,
then they are avail in the repos.  You could also boot with the Ubuntu
LiveCD and use it from there.  I use Kubuntu and it is on their LiveCD.

Brian

On Jan 13, 2008 5:24 PM, Greg Brooks <> wrote:

> Hi all. quick "from the idiot's gallery" question here.
>
> Got an extra machine with two 250 GB drives in it. Drive 1 has the OS
> (Ubuntu server) and not much else. Drive 2 has a single partition (/media)
> that holds subdirectories with a bazillion files I want occasional access
> to
> via Samba.
>
> Drive 1 seems to be showing up as the right size, but drive 2 looks to be
> missing a solid 120GB.
>
> My question: Any way to resize/repartition/re-something drive 2 without
> losing all the data that's on there?
>
> Many thanks,
> Greg
>
>
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