On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 03:15, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
> This is pretty typical of MS-DOS; it has a 504Mb limit. There are a number
> of "disk managers" available that (typically) boot up before DOS, and fool
> it. One popular tool was "ontrack", which many mfrs supplied customised
> for just their own drives.
MS-DOS 6.22 will support drives upto 8.4gb, I don't know about any prior
versions though. Usually the BIOS that causes the 512MB limit in my
experience, so you may want to look into a bios upgrade.
Freedos
http://www.freedos.org/ will support drives upto 128GB and is
mostly MS-DOS 6.22 compatible.
> There are a number of tools linked from
> here: http://www.vobis.de/bbs/firmen/wd/hrddrive/
> I've used ezdrive9 in the past with WD discs with success.
Same here because the bios did not support my 850MB disk and ezdrive
came with the drive.
Regards,
Paul
Received on Fri Mar 14 2003 - 07:46:00 GMT