On Mnemosyne's memorable day known as Mon, 19 Jul 2004 15:18:36 GMT Calliope   
   probably had an epic bad hair day to prompt her sister Thalia in mockingly   
   inspiring Danno  to write in his/her epistle   
    thus:   
      
   >   Unfotunately, the laptop won't boot the drive as is. It's a 2G drive, and   
   > from what I can gather, in the BIOS the largest hdd size is about 150M or so.   
   > I've had the basic sys files for DOS 6.21 booting at one point, after   
   formatting   
   > with MaxBlast Plus, but then I wasn't able to install the full DOS OS because   
   > of the overlay.   
   >   Any other suggestions?   
      
   Did you try "FDISK /MBR"?   
   If that did/does not work, my guess is you didn't format the new partition   
   properly. Or, if you did, the old BIOS will not recognize such a biggie   
   anyway. Tough luck, then.   
      
   Maybe this will remedy it:   
      
   1) Repartition (FDISK)  your 2 GB hard drive in a C:\ [150 MB] primary   
   partition and a logical D:\ [1.5 GB] in an extended partition and format   
   (FAT16) both.   
   Try a 2 KB [2048 B] or 4 KB [4096 B] cluster size for C:\ and a 8 KB [8192   
   B] to 32 KB [32768 B] cluster size for the D:\ partition. Beware that when   
   you use the "FDISK x /PRI:n (/PRIO:n) /EXT:n /LOG:n (/LOGO:n)" command, the   
   - /EXT:n and /LOG:n (or /LOGO:n) partition sizes MUST be identical.   
      
   [x = drive number: 1, 2, 3... etc. Drive 1 corresponds to the 1st hard disk   
   installed (C), drive 2 to second hard disk (D)... etc. You must run a   
   separate FDISK x /LOG:n (or /LOGO:n) command for EACH installed hard disk.   
   n = size in MegaBytes.]   
      
   2) SYS the new 150 MB primary partition  C:\ with DOS 6.21 via a DOS floppy   
   (or your overlay-thingy if that works) and make it sure it is (or set it)   
   active with FDISK.   
   3) Copy the Windows 95 install files to a folder on the new D:\ partition.   
   3) Jam it in your laptop, boot into DOS from your C:\ and start Win95 setup   
   from the copied folder with the Windows 95 install files.   
      
   Note: Do not upgrade to FAT32 (WIN 95 B/C - OSR 2.0 & 2.5) with DOS 7.x,   
   only Pentium (586 and >) chipsets can use the BIOS  interrupt 13 (INT13h)   
   LBA (Logical Block Addressing) extension feature to access drives with more   
   than 1023 cylinders, 255 heads and 63 sectors and go beyond the 8 GB limit.   
      
   If your BIOS still does not support anything bigger then 150 MB partitions   
   with your current DOS version / FDISK.EXE, you could check if there is a   
   BIOS update for this motherboard, though I would not recommend flashing it,   
   even if possible. Windows 95 A [with DOS 6.20] should be working with your   
   current board and BIOS alright.   
      
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