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Overcome 528MB Bios limit.
Name: Startrekfan821 Date: August 10, 2002 at 15:13:50 Pacific
Comment:
Where can I get a program (such as EZ-BIOS) to let me access a 1275MB drive on an old 486? I have one but it only works with western digital hds and this is a seagate hd. thanx for help. P.S. Tried hours sifting though seach engines with no luck.
Name: fred6008 Date: August 10, 2002 at 21:16:23 Pacific
Reply:
I have one of those floppies that came with a Seagate drive which will set the drive up for you. However, all you need is a file that ends in .OVL from the Seagate site. (You put the file on c:\ and put DEVICE=???.OVL in the config.sys where ??? is the filename you download.) With this file loaded you have to boot to C: to use FDISK or put a config.sys with the line in it on your boot disk.
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Response Number 4
Name: Tom Date: August 10, 2002 at 22:18:30 Pacific
Reply:
If you can't get the disk manager at the above Seagate site, try This seagate site
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