At 04:35 PM 6/14/1999 +500, you wrote:
> Helo Every one,
> This computer is not supposed to be able to use a drive larger than 540 MB
>in size..
> The bios didn't have enough digets, as a result the hard drive kept
>failing to initialize..
> To my uter dismay!
> The way I finally got it to initialize was to select custom setup and put
>in the largest numbers it would accept, the numbers wore wrong, but it
>worked!
> The hard drive comes whith I geus it is a bios extender called ezbios.
>This loads befor the drive can be accessed.
> It seems to work!!
> Nock on would!
> I really didn't think it would work.
> I feal lucky!
> Pete
>
This is essentially the method I have used with my machine, although I used
the disk manager where you have used the ezbios.
But, I wonder, were you able to initialize one partition larger than 2.2
gig? assuming you have that large a drive...
Mine had to be broken into partitions less than 2.2 gig.
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