p60-lba-problem-850mb-harddrive

First I'd look for a BIOS update for the machine.

You really need to be able to support LBA...but I thought just about all pentium machines did.
Motherboards which are pre 95 may not recognise drives larger than about 500meg. There are softwarepatches available at each drive manufacturer web site to avoid that problem.

Take a look here for help and info:

Maxtor/Quantum

http://www.maxtor.com/Maxtorhome.htm

Seagate

www.seagate.com
Download Diskwizard software if yourmotherboard does not recognise the full size of the hard drive

Western Digital

http://www.westerndigital.com/service/

Western Digital download utilities and installation software

http://www.westerndigital.com/service/ftp/drives.html
Fujitsu

hard disk info http://www.fujitsumicro.com

Samsumg

hard disk info http://www.samsung.com.au/hdd/hdd.html

or http://www.samsungsupport.com/hddmenu.htm

Hope this helps!

Hi Michael,

The drive overlay programs are not suppossed to loose anything when you install them.

Just make sure that you have any critical data backed up.

It might be safest to install the drive overlay program with the drive in a PC thatdoes recognize the drive properly.
This will greatly reduce the risk of loosing any files.

What I'm not sure of, is if the newer versions of the drive overlay software posted on the hard drive mfgs. web sites support the older drives.

You might try Jargon's Driver Museum
www.drivermuseum.com
Jargon has a number of utilities for the older hard drives posted there.

Oh, I guess that a "Mysterium" is an interesting way to describe me.

Chas

i have successfully used ez-bios from westerndigital(its a caviar 2850(850mb) but:
my drive c and a: is in ms-dos-compatibility mode.
i had this problem on a winme or win98se-system. q151911 of microsoft(ms-dos compatibility-mode with pci-ide controllers tells me to go to
hkey_local_machine\system\currentcontrolset\service\vxd\ios then rightclick the NOIDE value and delte it. but: win98A has no such value NOIDE.

i will now "ghost" my master win98A-harddisk to the caviar 850 and update to ezbios. we will see.

if i delete the overlay-programm ms-compatibility disappears. one guy told me to install a ide-chipset-driver. or i will install a 500mb-drive.

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