Keith Gladstone said...
> I have just installed a new Maxtor 20.5 gig HD, I configured it as a slave
> and was able to boot and then format the drive.  My first problem was that
> windows would only format it to 8024Mb, I think this is a problem with
Win95

Jun Qian said...
>Try partition the new drive in DOS first. You can restart your computer in
>DOS and Fdisk to create partitions, then reboot and format it. Just make
>sure your BIOS can see the 20G drive, then win95 will take what ever the
>BIOS tells it. If you are using Win95a, you may need to download and install
>win95 service pack from MS.

If what Jun Qian said doesn't work you may well have hit a limitation in BIOS. We used a program called Ontrack which loads a little program when preparing the disk to allow you to get the most from the drive. Thereafter when booting it takes care of the BIOS limitation. This was provided on a Seagate tools disk, but I would think that you should be able to get similar support from Maxtor. How old is the PC?

Regards Roger.

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