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Article #1924Re: 2.5 Gb harddisk becomes 520 Mb.
From: Garrett Krueger
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 00:00
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Keith Christensen wrote: > > Try Quantum's site for their version of Disk Manager... > <http://support.quantum.com/menus/utilities.htm >. > This will work for now , but keep the software on a floppy ! > That way you can uninstall it later if you use the drive in a system that > doesn't need BIOS overlay! > Once you have installed DM, FDISK and Format CAN'T get rid of it! Only the > uninstall or a low-level format can do that! > (Good Idea.... wrap the floppy in aluminum foil , then in a sandwich bag, > and tape it on top of the drive!)- > - > Keith Christensen .... radiopro@BAMBIgte.net [309093] > (Kill ..(delete..<g>) BAMBI for email.... the spammers are wise to NOSPAM!) > > A: Hi Tech is a Pain in the )( ! > B: I deal with Fast Electrons, > call a lineman for problems with the slow ones! > > J.L.Mook wrote in message ... > |I want to install a 2.5 Gb Quantum Bigfoot harddisk on my 486DX33 > |computer, but it doesn't seem to see the harddisk my BIOS tells me that I > |have installed a 2.5 Gb harddisk but when I go to Dos or Win95 it's only > |520 MB. I understand there is software witch will fix this problem ! > | > |Can anybody tell me how I should do this and where I can find this > |Software......Thanxx > | > |Luc Mook That's not true... you CAN get rid of the Disk manager partition. You simply need to do a "clean-boot" from a floppy drive. Then remove the "non-dos" partition from your hard drive (this is the ontrack partition). _____________________________________________________________________ Garrett Krueger 1-612-771-9209 CleoSci Snr. Prgrmmr/Consultant PO Box 17037 gkrueger@cleosci.com http://www.cleosci.com St. Paul, MN 55117
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fa57c,77469a7e6a931359 X-Google-Attributes: gidfa57c,public X-Google-Thread: f8e37,77469a7e6a931359 X-Google-Attributes: gidf8e37,public X-Google-Thread: fce2a,77469a7e6a931359 X-Google-Attributes: gidfce2a,public X-Google-Thread: f70d1,77469a7e6a931359 X-Google-Attributes: gidf70d1,public X-Google-Thread: 10a2ed,77469a7e6a931359 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a2ed,public X-Google-Thread: 1126fe,77469a7e6a931359 X-Google-Attributes: gid1126fe,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,77469a7e6a931359 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public X-Google-Thread: f7451,77469a7e6a931359 X-Google-Attributes: gidf7451,public From: Garrett Krueger <gkrueger@cleosci.com> Subject: Re: 2.5 Gb harddisk becomes 520 Mb. Date: 1997/12/17 Message-ID: <34976AAC.24DA@cleosci.com> X-Deja-AN: 298930938 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <MPG.f00ab9142e005a9989682@news.xs4all.nl> <677b2n$8c$1@gte1.gte.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: CleoSci Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: gkrueger@cleosci.com Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.homedesigned,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.tv.quantum-leap.creative,biz.comp.hardware,it.comp.hardware,rec.arts.sf.tv.quantum-leap