Subj : BACK IN BUSINESS
To   : Tom Walker
From : Howie Coombe
Date : Fri Jan 21 2005 07:11 pm

Dear Tom, in regards to this message to Me.

 > -> > ->> What size is it?

 > -> > WC> 65 Gig. My BIOS craps out at 34 Gig.

 > -> > There may be a software workaround for Windows,

 > -> Plese elucidate.

 >  The Major Hard Drive manfacturers all have a software utility that will     
> work arround the 32 Gig BIOS limit.


Aha.

 > They will allow drives up to 137 Gig barrier presented by the 28 bit         
> addressing on the oldrer IDE controllers.


Cool, but is there a down side?.

 > The down side is that it places a little part of the program in the boot     
> sector of the drive and it can be a problem with Multiboot systems.


Bugger.

 > The program really works though as I used it for many years to break the     
> 528 Meg BIOS barrier I had on an older machine some years back.


Good to read, thank you for that elucidation.

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