INSTALLING A NEW LARGER HD IN AN OLD THINKPAD 380Z - PROBLEMS

I own an old but still very useful THINKPAD 380Z and tryied to improve it by replacing the original 4 GB IBM HD by a new unused 40 GB Seagate HD. To my surprise, using FDISK I could only find 8 GB, nothing more. I also tryied to update the BIOS by downloading from LENOVO site a corrective file.
When applied, it found nothing to change and te BIOS keeps indicating a 1998 date in the startup, while the corrective file should have updated it to year 2000 version BIOS. Does somebody knows what is happening and what to do?
Cordially
TWOOD

I know this is an old topic but I'm interested to know if you found a way around the size limit.
Also, were you able to get BIOS to report the correct version?
ThinkPad 380Z, 2635-HGU, W98SE

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i.e you had all your music in the iTunes media folder inside your iTunes folder.
If your iTunes folder is so small compared to the amount of music you have, you must have a different arrangement.
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Find the iTunes folder on the old drive and copy the two library files somewhere else so you can find them again. That's iTunes Library.itl and iTunes Library.xml.
Now open the copy of iTunes Library.xml with WordPad.
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Location
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This copies all tracks into to iTunes media folder and could create a problem if you do not have disk space so don't do it if you are unsure about free disk space.
Check that iTunes works OK and then use the first method.
Message was edited by: polydorus

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