Bios not seeing(?) bigger hard drive
I have a used Compaq EVO n800v. I can install and run Windows 2000 on two different 6gb hard drives. When I try to install on a 30 and a 40gb hard drive the installation cd sees the whole 30 or 40gbs and loads onto the hard drive but when a reboot is needed to complete the installation it will not boot the hard drive. I have also tried installing Linux. Same thing. It will load and boot from the 6gb but when trying to boot from the larger ones I get an error 18. Looking around I found that this means the bios can not see anything bigger than a 8gb hard drive. These units were originally shipped with 20 to 60gb hard drives. I tried to reset the bios/cmos by removing the cmos battery for 48hours. I have flashed the bios with the latest version but still no change. Any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.