Frank,

The harddisk in question is Maxtor 20 GB. I am not sure
whether they have EZ-BIOS software that you have mentioned?
Moreover will FAT32 partitions work with these softwares.

I have created a 4 GB partition. If I install EZ-BIOS, will
it be OK?

Thanks for your help,
Niraj

"Frank R. Brown" wrote:
>
> I've used a thing called ez-bios with success, in a
> similar situation.
>
> I put a larger hard-drive in an old laptop, and had the
> same problem (except all the numbers were smaller).
>
> The hard-drive came with this ez-bios (pure software,
> no actual change to the bios) utility.  I believe at
> boot time it somehow shadows the bios so it can
> add the larger hard-drive support, although I really
> don't know.
>
> My only complaint (minor) was that it wouldn't work
> on an ntfs partition.  Since I wanted ntfs, I had to make
> a small fat boot (using normal, rather than microsoft
> terminology) partition for both ez-bios and and the
> nt boot files, and then a separate ntfs partition for the
> 'real' stuff.
>
> I was dubious at first, but once I got it set up, it
> worked flawlessly.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Niraj Jaiswal <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > ...
> > Just recently I bought a 20 GB Maxtor IDE Harddisk. I am
> > able to see just 8 GB of the harddisk. When I browsed the
> > microsoft site, I found out that the BIOS should have
> > support for Int 13h Extensions to access harddisk beyond
> > 8 GB.
> >
> > I went ahead and downloaded the latest BIOS from HP site.
> > But somehow it doesn't seem to work. Unfortunately HP has
> > stopped all support for HP Pavilion 7110Z.
>
>      Frank R.Brown
>      Frank.R.Brown@MailAndNews
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