there are little programs you can get and install in the master boot
record of your harddrive which puts in a workaround so the old bios can see
the big drive and boot from it. EZ-BIOS is one that I use, it came with
my 13gb drive which I used with a pentium 166 for several years. without
EZ-BIOS the bios thought it was a 6gb drive
On Mon, Aug 26, 2002 at 08:31:14AM -0700, Nathan England wrote:
> >
> Over the weekend my best friend bought a 60gb hdd and we installed it in his
> computer. His bios was too old to see the drive, and it wouldn't allow us to
> flash it, so we were limited in what we could do.
>
> We ended up with a 4gb drive as hda and put the 60 as hdc. He might need
> windows in the future, so we put windows on the 4 gb, then setup loadlin to
> boot to the 60gb with suse 8.0.
>
> We set the 60 gb to <none> in his bios os it wouldn't see it. Which caused
> some minor nightmares at first, but after we got loadlin setup and a dos
> batch file that acts like a lilo menu it all is working greatly.
>
> Has anyone else hidden a drive like this and successfully used it? Did you
> have any problems that you relate to hiding the drive like that?
>
> nathan
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