Posted for Brian Clifford by Moderator Mark Rode ----------------------------------------------------------------- Guido: Try a program like OnTrack's Disk Manager. I recently used it in a lab with pc that were upgraded 486 to 586 and 170MB hd's to 1.3GB hd's. Their bios would not allow the big drives but the OnTrack made it work fine! Good luck, Brian Clifford P.S. I believe their web site is www.ontrack.com On Mon, 2 Feb 1998, Guido wrote: > Hi, > > Installed Samsung 2.1GB on a system. It's recognized in CMOS as 2.1 GB, but > it will only format as 500MB. The BIOS doesn't allow LBA/NORMAL/LARGE > options. Any idea how it *might* be formatted and used to its full capacity? > > Thanks. > [log in to unmask] > > Guido Piraino ************************************* Brian P. Clifford Instructor in CIS and in Business Freed-Hardeman University Henderson, TN 38340 e-mail: [log in to unmask] *************************************