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Michael Slater <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:34:45 +0000
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A very good product for this is the LS120 upgrade card, all there is on it
is the new BIOS to allow HD's of up to 8.4GB, they cost $30 at Best Buy, I
use these on all older machines (4 years old and more usually)


At 08:43 AM 2/3/98 -0800, you wrote:

>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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