At 01:51 AM 29/03/99 GMT, you wrote:
>I currently operate a Packard Bell 486DX-25. It has a 126 Mbyte HDD.
>I'd like to replace it or augment it with a second drive. The BIOS
>appears to support a variety of drives, the largest of which is 300
>Mbytes.
>Do any of you have any other ideas?
>---
I have a bios that stops at 2.2 GB yet am running a 3.2GB drive. (way more
than I need, nice feeling)
I did flash the bios but it wasn't sufficient, the manufacturer of the
Drive led me to a piece of software that lodges in the boot sector and
partitions the drive into manageable sized chunks, up to four of them. It
does this in advance of installing any software and as a result, the
operating system sees four physical drives rather than partitioned logical
drives on one physical drive, and the whole drive can be accessed.
The software I'm using is Fujitsu Ontrack Disk Manager. I'm quite happy
with it. There are others of the sort, I tried a different one but it
didn't do what this one does.
Anyway, if you do decided to buy a new disk of the smallest you can find,
buy a brand name and query the manufacturer for such a solution.
bye,
Yolanda
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