Amstrad 2086 Bios and Upgrades

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From: William Fang
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 1994 07:25

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I'm trying to upgrade the ST-506/mfm hard-drive inside a friend's
computer.

It's an Amstrad PC 2086, 640K V1.4 (C) Amstrad 1988.

How do I get into the BIOS to tell the Amstrad the geometry
of the new hard-drive, which is significantly bigger than the
old one?  I have tried using fdisk, but the computer has trouble
reading the hard-drive, obviously I need to set the drive in the
bios.

Thanks for any help.


- Jim

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