I just got a new 10.2gig HD. But my bios only reconizes 8.4gigs. I don't want to update my bios,cause i don't want to mess up my computer. So how do i go about partitioning it to c:5gigs and d:5gigs??? I know how to do fdisk...but don't know exactly how to split my drive. So i formatted the whole HD with Fat32 and only have 8.4gigs and can't use the other 2 gigs remaining. Thanx for any help. Oh my 10gig is hooked up as C drive and i have a 420meg as my D drive. If i do partition the 10gig to C/D will the 420 automatically change to E drive.

Are you using Windows 98 or Windows 95? If you do partition the 10.2 gb drive and leave the 420 mb drive in as a slave, Windows will place the 420 mb drive as the second drive. So the first 5.1 gbs of the Primary drive will be C drive. The 420 mb drive will be D drive. The second 5.1 gb partition will be E drive.

or F: if CD rom is present, no?

It's a Pentium 100 with Win 95 in it. As of now it is my 10.2 as C drive,420 meg as D drive and CD-rom as E drive...maybe that will help. Thx all

Just out of curiousity...i heard if you format your HD with Fat16...that the Read/Write is much quicker. Is this true?

You may have multiple problems here. First, if the System BIOS will not recognize your 10.2 gb harddrive your can either replace the System BIOS or use a Dynamic Disk Overlay such as EZ BIOS to trick your current BIOS into accepting the larger drive. The EZ BIOS (or similar product) should of been supplied with your Hard Drive or available for download from the manufacturer's site. Second Windows 95 did have a problem itself with recognizing any drive larger than 2.1 gb. I believe that the Windows 95C version did overcome this when they incorporated FAT 32 into that version. If you don't have FAT 32 capabiltiy then your are going to have to FDISK into sections of less than 2.1 gb per partition.

Extract from a web page: The 8.4GB limitation is both a BIOS issue and an operating system issue. For the BIOS to support drives over 8.4GB, the BIOS must include INT13 Extensions, which is a new set of BIOS calls. Some BIOSes that do include INT13 Extensions do not include specific support for drives over 8.4GB. MS-DOS 6.22 is limited to 8.4GB drives. This cannot be corrected by a BIOS upgrade or BIOS extension. If a drive larger than 8.4GB is partitioned with DOS FDISK, it will be limited to 8.4GB. All versions of Windows 95 support drives larger than 8.4GB. However, the system BIOS must correctly handle these drives. Very few BIOSes dated earlier than 1998 will correctly handle drives over 8.4 GB.