I thought it would be a good safe practice to try out my installation on my
slightly older Dell Computer XPS M200s. If I partition my drive in 2 Gig. sections,
should it not work? In addition, do you know why my install always goes into text
mode rather graphical. This is totally bizarre.
I will check wih Dell.
Thanks for your help.
Roman
Joe Perry wrote:
> > have a 10 Gig. Fujitsu hard drive that was formatted using DiskGo. I tried
> > using
> > fdisk but it only acknowledged that I had 8 Gig.
> > After reading a ton of material on hard drives, I came across an article
> > about
> > Win98SE, hard drives and 3rd party utilities.
> > It stated that I should not used fdisk to partition the drive but DiskGo.
> > The
> > manufacturer provided it for free
> >
> Check your BIOS, it is probably an older version that does NOT support hd's
> larger than 8GB. Cyblinder values larger that 1024 are not supported.
> >
> > Anytime I reformat any of my HDs I always use the vendor supplied
> > software. IBM has EZDrive, Maxtor has MaxBlast and I suppose DiskGo is
> > Fujitsu version.
>
> These programs are special programs that reside in the MBR, and fool the older
> BIOS into thinking there are less that 1024 cylinders by changing the track and
> sector values.
>
> You will not be able to use a boot manager in order to support multiple OS'es.
>
> 1. Load program into MBR, install Operating System 1
> 2. Install boot manager, Install Operating System 2.
>
> You have irrepairably damaged Operating System 1.
>
> A better idea is to update your BIOS
> Joseph H. Perry
> Oracle DBA
> Columbus State University
> 4225 University Ave
> Columbus, GA 31907-5645
> (706) 568-2063
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
