Subj : BACK IN BUSINESS
To   : TOM WALKER
From : THURSTON ACKERMAN
Date : Thu Jan 20 2005 12:02 am

TW>->  > ->> What size is it?
TW>->
TW>->  > WC> 65 Gig. My BIOS craps out at 34 Gig.
TW>->
TW>->  >  There may be a software workaround for Windows,


TW>-> Plese elucidate.

TW> The Major Hard Drive manfacturers all have a software utility that will
TW>work arround the 32 Gig BIOS limit. They will allow drives up to 137 Gig
TW>barrier presented by the 28 bit addressing on the oldrer IDE
TW>controllers.
TW> The down side is that it places a little part of the program in the
TW>boot sector of the drive and it can be a problem with Multiboot systems.
TW> The program really works though as I used it for many years to break
TW>the 528 Meg BIOS barrier I had on an older machine some years back.

My SysteMax Tiger 970555 PC with 1.8gHz  Intel-P4 PCU, originally
came with a Maxtor 40GZ HD and OEM XP-Home; to which I added an
earlier 40GB'er that was partitioned by Partition-It 8.0 to house
Win98se in one half and SuSE 9.0 linux in the other half; all was
managed quite nicely on boot-up by Partition Magic.

Kind old Santa provided a new Maxtor 160GB HD that I had anticipated
having Partition-It devide it into two equal halves of 80 GB each to
accomodate the W98se and Suse 9 OSs that are bursting their present
media; while the other original 40GB'er would facilitate the great
Partition-IT and Partition Magic (without an authoriation hassle 8-).

Do I read your above "down side" etc. will frustrate the above plan?

Ciao, Ack.

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