HOW COME DOS SEES ONLY 504MB...

[Rison]

when the BIOS sees 8084MB (even though I have a 20GB Hard Drive)? What can I do to make it see more?

 

[neuralfx]

how old is your bios/motherboard? use .. .. EZ-bios .. if this is an older system, you can download the Max-Blast disk utility from Maxtor's website, it will install EZbios ..
-neural

 

[Rison]

I got the software when I got the Hard drive. Should I install with only 520MB installed, then install the software?

 

[neuralfx]

no you install ezbios, before you setup your partitions .. if you have made a partition already, just delete it, install ezbios, and make ur partitions, and you should be fine from there ..
-neural

 

[Rison]

where do I find ezbios? It's not on the maxtor cd or diskette.

 

[bozo1]

You use the Maxblast utility to install it. That should have came on diskette or you can download it from Maxtor's website.

 

[neuralfx]

yes when you go through setting up ur drive with ezbios, it will notify you that you should install it, in that case you simply hit yes/no .. its not a standalone program, its part of the maxblast program ..
-neural

 

[Rison]

My problem isn't with the BIOS, which recognizes the drive in auto-configure mode as 8.4GB, which is good enough for me. My problem is dos not giving me the option of seeing more than 504MB. How can I make it see larger drives.

 

[vash]

Depending on what DOS version or disk you use, you will not be able to see more than 500 megs. Try getting a DOS disk from www.bootdisk.com

Those versions of DOS will see the larger drive. Older DOS versions do not show drive sizes over 500 megs properly.

vash