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You didn't say what kind of disks you have !
If it's a SCSI, it should work with the classical DOS tools, FDISK, 
FORMAT.

I guess it's an IDE, then it's a bit more difficult. Motherboards more 
then a year old, usually don't have provision for disk > 512 MB.

According to my little experience (please correct me), there are several 
alternatives:

1) you buy a new motherboard, with LBA (Large Block Addressing) support 
in the BIOS.

2) you buy an EIDE disk controller, with on-board ROM, to support disks > 
512 MB (which will do exactly the same as #1 but at the controller level)

3) you install Disk Manager, wich installs a device driver to bypass the 
512 MB limitation (which will do exactly the same as #1 but at the 
software level). I bought a Maxtor 850 MB, it came with Disk Manager, but 
Disk Manager is a licensed product, ie: to be purchased separately.
I didn't like the device driver solution, because you have to rely on 
the presence of that device driver. If you boot inadvertanly from a std 
DOS floppy you don't see your disk. I bought an ASUS motherboard, has LBA 
support.

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