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 **************************************************************
