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Please look..... BIOS-HDD Partition related question

I think you got your answer in the other thread.

Essentially, if the bios doesn't see the entire drive neither will the system.

You have a choice of upgrading your motherboard bios or using the supplied utility which should overcome the system limitation.
 
My recommendation is the following..

1) If you have a 1/2 way decent motherboard then there should be a new bios version that fixes this problem. If not, then you got what you paid for.

2) Add another controller card that has it's own support for large hard drives and connect the drive to it (Promise ATA66 or ATA100 cards will work). I'm pretty sure that the second fix will work but not 100% because had to use this fix yet.

Nino
 
I know that I've posted this before, but one more time. Int13 extensions added 4 more bits to the addressing scheme for cylinder, head and sector. This new scheme took the limit from approx 8gig to 128gig. The problem you are having is that the new high capacity drives use lots of cylinders and not so many heads. Limited Cylinder mode gets around a Bios that can't handle the high cylinders but it reduces the overall capacity. Some drives have a jumper to remap the real heads.
 
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