From: nospampsteel@tesco.net
I just put a 30Gb disk in for a friend on W95. Its the BIOS that will
limit you.
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:17:44 +0200, Michael Romes
wrote:
>Andreas Thalhammer schrieb:
>> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 01:21:33 +0100, Shepİ wrote:
>
>>
>>>On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:26:10 GMT, In this world we created Andreas
>>>Thalhammer wrote
>>>>On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:31:46 -0500, Kay Archer wrote:
>>>>>What brand of hard drive? Most makers have tools (software/overlays) to
>>>>>deal with this situation. You can skip fdisk by using the partitioning
>>>>>tools provided by the HD maker.
>>>>
>>>>Toshiba MK-2018GAS - but there is no driver support for that drive. And
>>>>there is no Disk Manager available for this drive from Toshiba. Do I have
>>>>to buy Ontrack Disk Manager 4.0 to use it? Why do I have to spend
>>>>additional money?!?
>>>>
>>>>But thanks for your advice.
>>>>Andreas.
>>>
>>>So this is a new install of windows?
>>>what version of win95?
>>
>>
>> I think it's Windows 95 OSR-2, because it's FAT32 compatible. But it is an
>> OEM release, which, at this time, didn't have any restricitions regarding
>> hardware changes (=upgrades).
>>
>> Meanwhile I managed to install Windows 95 and it's running. It really is
>> the BIOS, and the only way is a program installed in the master boot
>> record that loads the hard disk as 20GB for DOS and Windows.
>> The thing is - it really works fine with Linux. But what can I say?
>> Windows 95 is OLD! With Windows NT/2k/XP these problems wouldn't exist.
>> So, thanks anyway!
>> Andreas.
>
>Windows 95 OLD? Not really :-)
>I´m still using Windows 95, although version OSR 2.5 or C with FAT 32
>and it runs fine.
>But why do you say that Windows is OLD when you assume that the error
>comes from the BIOS??
>I had a similar problem, that Harddisks above 4 GB would not be
>recognized by my BIOS - I downloaded a Flashupdated from the webpage of
>the mainboard manufacturer and then it ran fine.
>bye
>Michael
>
>
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