Sean:

You are lucky and unlucky at the same time.  I have used the EIDEmax card
and was very pleased with it.  It did let me access all 2.1 GB of the
drive in an older 486sx!

The unlucky part is this:  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.

Best of luck!
Brian Clifford

On Sat, 16 May 1998, Sean Finnegan wrote:

>   Hi
>
>  I recently installed a Western 850MB hard drive on my PC.
>
>  Windows 95 will only view or use 528,171,008 Bytes of the disc.
>
>  I am also hoping to fit a second hard drive a Maxtor model 7345AT, 350MB
>
>  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.
>
>  If that is the case does that mean the Western 850MB disc has NOT to be
>  reformatted, all I have to do is to install the EIDEMAX, and I will be
> able
>  to maintain all the current data on the disc.
>
>  Will it be also, all right for me to fit the Maxtor model 7345AT 350MB
> disc
>  as a second Hard drive.
>
>  The computer has :
>
>  ALI 486 VESA MOTHER BOARD.     With a 80486DX2 CPU
>                         2 FLOPPY DRIVES a 3.5 and a 5.25
>                         A CD ROM
>                         PT-528 VGA DISPLAY CARD
>                         Windows 95 operating system
>
>  I would appreciate any help in resolving this problem
>
>  TIA
>
>  Sean Finnegan
>  e-mail : [log in to unmask]
>

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      Freed-Hardeman University
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