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Old Dell BIOS and a 30 gig HD... what are the limits?

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NurseRN

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I was trying to install a 30 gig HD on a Pentium 200Pro with 64 megs of RAM; the BIOS was old so I re-flashed it with a more recent version. Still it recognizes as a 8 megs HD...

What are the limits? How can I get around this?

Thanks guys!

Nurse
 
The one way to get around it is to get a newer BIOS from a third party (IE: not Dell) if one is available for that machine (unlikely but posssible). The other and way you'll probably have to go is by using software that gets around your BIOS limitation. Disk Manager is one program that will do that. I know there are others out as well but can't remember the names.

BTW, here is a link you may want to check out that gives a better explanation than I could give you as to why the 8.4 gig limit exists.
 


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another avenue to explore is to get a pci controller card such as the Promise ATA 66 or 100 card &amp; hook up your hdd to it. the card has its own bios with a hdd limitation of 128Gb.
 
I second the PCI controller card, not only will it have the INT13 BIOS extensions needed to use all the drive space but it will also run the drive at a higher speed, ATA66/100 instead of ATA33 on the old controller.

The various software solutions that modify the MBR with a software routine to over-ride INT13 are kinda messy to deal with.
 
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