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Re[2]: HD & OLD CMOS
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Russ Poffenberger <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - PC Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 3 Feb 1998 08:43:13 -0800
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Susan Dowe <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> You need to partition the drive with something like EZ Driver and make it
> into 4 or more drives.  I have a 1.2 g and had to partition mine so that it
> is my C and D drives now.

Sorry, that won't do it. You will find that not even fdisk can see more than
500MB. He needs BIOS that supports LBA. Like other responders, the best way is a
new EIDE controller that has onboard BIOS, or a new motherboard. Overlay
software has many restrictions, and usually doesn't play well with Windows 95.


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