On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Robert Wieland wrote: > Andy, > > You're going to need more help than I can give, but I just want to make > one point... in equipment of that vintage, you may have an IDE drive > controller, which has a hardware limit of accessing 525 meg on the hard > disk. To go to larger disks, you need to load a driver after boot, and > then use the larger disk as your D: drive. I have never heard of a > work-around which enables the boot C: disk to be over that 525 limit. > > You can use install and operate as C: a hard drive manufactured to be > larger than 525 meg, but your controller will be able to "see" only 525 of > space. > > This limitation is the difference between IDE and EIDE; the latter doesn't > have it. > > If I were doing this, I would buy a suitable used hard drive used from one > of the on-line resellers, probably hitechcafe.com, if they're still > around.
I'd put it into my machine as D:, format as bootable & partition > it, and then use the COPY command to create an image of C: on D: > (340 meg of files? Bring a lunch) Then I'd take the original drive out, > make the new drive C: by moving the cable, and try to boot. > yes, I could do this... 'A: drive' is my 3 1/2 inch floppy; 'B: drive' is a 5 1/2 floppy drive; 'C: drive' is the 340 MB HDD; 'D: drive' is a 4x CD-ROM; 'E: drive' is my zip 100 MB parallel port zip drive... how would i put it into the machine as D: or one of these other drive letters? i mean the D: CD-ROM requires special drivers in my autoexec.bat to be recognized.. how would i get a replacement temp. slave? drive recognized in order to copy C:?? (the 2 floppy drives and the C: HDD don't need any special drivers to be recognized) what would I use to copy C:?? XCOPY?? could I use XCOPY /S and my zip drive to make an image/back-up of C:? would/is there be a prompt using XCOPY to insert a new zip disk when one 100 MB zip disk got full as I attempt to back-up/image my 340 MB C:? how does one 'format as bootable'? is there an option in the DOS FORMAT command? then I guess i would use fdisk to partition it? please remember i am using Caldera DR-DOS 7.03 > My greatest concern would be not to burn any bridges behind me: note that, > in the plan above, I could "get my original machine back" anytime by > reinstalling the untouched 340-meg drive as C:. As long as I keep that > backup inviolate, the sky's the limit with what I can try with the new > disk drive. > > > > > Robert Wieland [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The very concept of human governance is a moral dilemma: > If the people are good, it is a mistake to create authorities over them; > If they are not good, it is a mistake to create authorities out of them. > > "It is. Or it isn't. Isn't it?" > English subtitle to a Japanese film version of "Hamlet". > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
