Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 17:46:21 -0700 (PDT) From: John Musielewicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Yet another question on formatting larger than 8 gig HD
I have been ignoring the bios limitation for a long time since every operating system I use including MSDOS 7 (from 98SE) has always seen the entire drive. I've always used free space for the bios hibernation save and free space--whether the bios sees a 60 gig drive as 8 gig or not always remains the same size for the bios when it does its emergency hibernation writes. Never lost a hard drive yet from a bios save. john <--- the genius :-) --- David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 15:49:50 -0700 (PDT) > From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Yet another question on > formatting larger than 8 gig HD > > under dos, I've only succeeded using EZ-Drive > overlay to access >8GB in > formatting and partitioning all of my 20GB HD when I > did that for my L110 years > ago. > > As long as you've got a <8GB primary active bootable > partition installed with > any OS, you can always boot into that, then, if its > W2K/XP/Linux, create the > other partitions on the HD since these OSs can see > the entire HD w/o extra disk > managers. > > --- > > If you're using only W98, you'll have to look at the > archives and see what > other methods have worked -- eg. partitioning on a > desktop PC first; using > Linux partitioning software; modifying the BIOS HD > tables manually all seemed > to have worked for others. > > --- > > It's just an itsy-bitsy part of the BIOS that isn't > returing the right values > for the HD size, so as long as that's fixed (see > manual HD table fix method in > past post; so simply use EZ-Drive or a newer OS), > then you'll be fine. > > You still have to partition around the 8GB area > however since any hardware > initiated hibernations will put data right there no > matter what. > > ===== > adorable toshiba libretto > The latest news and information for the Toshiba > Libretto owner. > http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We > finish. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > > ************************************************************** > http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing > list > http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives > > -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- > Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail > should be > addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace > any text > on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe > --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ > Do above but with this on subject line: > cmd:unsubscribe digest > ************************************************************** > > ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
