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From: warrl AT blarg DOT net (Warrl kyree Tale'sedrin)
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Subject: Re: MS DOS help needed
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 1995 19:08:54 GMT
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Joe Plescia                             <jplescia AT plescia DOT com> wrote:

>Does any one know how to get fdisk (dos ver 6.2) to partition
>a disk bigger than 500meg?  I have an approx 840 ide drive and
>fdisk does not let me part. it mode than approx 500m....
>Norton show the correct size...bios/cmos shows the correct size too...
>Any Ideas???

FDISK is fine.  Your problem lies deeper.  Specifically, your BIOS
cannot see more than 1024 cylinders on the drive.

Fixes:

(1) a new motherboard.  If you've been thinking about getting one,
this would be a good time.  If you've been thinking about upgrading
from a 386SX to a 386DX, or a 386 to a 486, or a 486 to a Pentium, you
want a new motherboard not just a new processor.

(2) a new EIDE disk controller card which includes an automatic BIOS
patching function.  It will be able to handle the disk drive(s) you
have.  Note: it is possible your current motherboard has the disk
controller on it; if so, you'll need the motherboard manual to find
how to disable that controller.  More likely your disk controller is
on a separate card, which you will remove -- just move all the cables
from it to similarly-labelled connectors on the new card.

(3) a new BIOS.  If you don't know how to get the necessary
information for this, I suggest taking your computer into the shop.  I
am not going to try to explain it in text -- that would be similar to
writing a detailed explanation of how to tie shoelaces.

(4) a software BIOS patch.  There is one called Disk Manager which
probably came with your drive.  This is the cheap, easy, least
desirable approach.

<Followups should be trimmed, but I have no idea where this guy was
posting from.>