On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00:00:05 +0000, Lars-Einar-Janssen wrote:
> The major problem when buying one of those new, gigantic harddrives is
> making your old computer able to utilize all of the added capacity.
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> It appears as though most BIOS manufacturers had not foreseen the rapid
> increase of harddrive real estate during the last few years, and had
> deliberately constructed their BIOSes so, that they couldn't manage
> drives over, say 8.4 GB. In order to save money in the manufacturing
> process?
All hard drive manufacturers are well aware of this problem. For this
reason they will usually supply the purchaser of the new hard drive with
a floppy having a special utility to install to deal with the BIOS problem.
Also they offer free downloads of these special utilities on their
web-sites. My suggestion is to visit the hard drive manufacturer's
web-site. There you should find some very good advice and complete
instructions. Been there, done that. Hey, they knew what would work for
me! Likewise, they will know what will work for you.
> Anyway, there seems to be three kinds of solutions to this problem:
> 1. Upgrade your computer's BIOS
> 2. Get a separate hd-controller card with a modern BIOS
> 3. Use a special driver, like that supplied with a program as
> Disk Manager.
My advice: use a special driver supplied by the hard drive manufacturer.
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All the best,
Sam Heywood
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