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Luan Nguyen <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 12 Dec 1998 06:20:31 +0700
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I think that your BIOS can regcognize a hdd over 2.1 Gb. My old 486DX2-50Mhz
computer whose BIOS is 5 years old!!(BIOS 1993) did very well. I used the
auto hdd detection in CMOS setup program and it regcognized the hdd
correctly. I even don't need to  refdisk the 2.1 with the computer. After
that i can start using data on the disk. but, the problem is that the 2.1Gb
hdd cannot boot. I have to boot from the 420Mb hdd and then with windows 95B
to use data on the 2.1.
Luan Nguyen
p/s ah, I think in order to use big hdd, you must have win95B or later.
Without Win95B, DOS cannot hand over hdd over 540Megs
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Steven Watson <[log in to unmask]>
    Date: Sunday, December 13, 1998 9:53 PM
    Subject: How Big A Hard Drive with this BIOS


    Gentlemen,

    An apology to the list for the second post but the first was sent
without a
    subject:

    I would like to add a larger hard drive to my sons computer. It is a
Pentium
    75 with a biostar motherboard, an Intel Triton FX chipset, and the Bios
is
    Award Plug N Play(08/02/95 Triton 2A59CB09C-00). Operating system is
Win98.
    The current hard drive is a Western Digital Caviar EIDE 850 Meg.

    The question I have is, what is the maximum hard drive size the BIOS
will
    recognize?

    Thanks

    Steve Watson

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