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large hard drive partitions under DOS

Name: Dan
Date: March 15, 2000 at 21:24:14 Pacific

Comment:

I have DOS 6.22, an AwardBIOS version 4.51, and a 3.1GB harddrive. How do I set up CMOS (or other device) to recognize my large hard drive and divide it into partitions up to 2GB in size? Presently DOS sees only about 500 MB of the hard drive; the 500 MB can be partitioned into smaller logical drives, but the rest of the hard drive (beyond 500 MB) is not seen at all; it cannot even be partitioned into other logical drives.

Reply:

a few years back, for the maxtor hd, there was a program that do the trick, check for a program such as diskwizard from seagate.

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In your BIOS, select LBA or LARGE under mode in the hard disk configuration setup screen. The drive should be recognized then. ---dosman

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