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Re: Fw: EIDEMAX the universal EIDE BIOS upgrade kit
From:
Don Cooley <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - PC Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Sat, 16 May 1998 18:36:05 -0700
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Sean wrote:
>>I recently installed a Western 850MB hard drive on my PC.
>> Windows 95 will only view or use 528M Bytes of the disc.
>>I have been reading the information on the EIDEMAX the universal
>>EIDE BIOS upgrade kit. It seems this unit would allow me to use
>>all the 850MB.
Brian replied:
>if you have to fdisk the disk again (and you will) you will lose
all
>your data.  You could, of course, copy all the info to your 350MB
>drive before reformatting the 850MB drive...

Would not Partition Magic do the same thing without having to lose
the data?

Don


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