I still dont understand,can this be done with the hardware solution rather
than a software one.
>From: Kyle Elmblade This is not always the case. There were drives that
>were made that had a
>2.1G limit jumper setting. This told the IDE board on the drive to report
>a
>2.1G geometry to the BIOS so the overlay program wasn't needed.
My original info....
Is it possible to move this harddrive to a new
>controller
> > card
> > > and change the jumper settings to take advantage of the full size of
>the
> > > hdd without destroying my operating sys. I only have a Rescue disk and
> > matching
> > > floppy to use. I am going to be adding a new Hdd -bigger- later on and
> > would like a hardware workaround for the bios instead of overlay
>software
>.
> > Would this new card be able to help me with my current Hdd or is it to
>late.
> > It is Fat32 with the newest bios update they had . Sorry for any
>incorrect
> > info. Thanks from ray.
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