On 18 Apr 00 at 0:00, Bernie wrote:
>>Karen wrote:
>>>also, as it does at least look as if the bios sees my 2 g hard
>>>drive, would i still use an overlay program so as to insure that
>>>all of the drive can be used?
>>
>>If everything works (meaning: the BIOS finds the HD which it obviously
>>does) using an overlay program will only slow things down.
>>But you should partition that drive IMHO. Some here would probably suggest
>>to keep each drive letter as a max (ca) 120 MB drive. I would go for
>>splitting the drive in four equally (more or less anyway) parts of each ca
>>500 MB. //Bernie http://bernie.arachne.cz/ DOS programs, Star Wars ...
While we are on the subject of large drives, BIOS limits, and drive
overlays I have a couple of questions. I recently bought (used) a
Western Digital 8.4 gig HD. My Award BIOS only sees 2 gig of it so I
downloaded and installed the WD EZ Drive overlay software. It is now
partitioned into 4 two gig partitions and I have installed my
DOS/Win3.11 setup into the first partition. It works fine save for
the fact that I have a little less low memory now and the fear I have
from some of the horror stories I have heard about Disk Mangler, and
the other overlay programs. I took the drive out of service and am
not going to use it till I get things set up like I want. Obviously I
rather not have the overlay program, but I really don't want to
invest in another controller card as I have a fine VL bus controller
already. Also I would like to install a good boot manager so I can
manage multiple OS's as well as leaving options for future interests.
Are there any boot manager that are compatible with the EZ Drive
overlay that WD provides? Also what options are there to using the
drive without the overlay software and not buying another controller
card? All comments are welcome. Thanks.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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