Re: OT: hard drive limits Q

On a sunny day (Sat, 23 Dec 2006 21:45:08 GMT) it happened Robert Baer
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There is possible also a part of your problem, cylinder limit in the OS.

Upgrade your system :-)


1) I *never* mentioned Linux; i doubt that anything done withLinux
would allow the HD to boot.

You did see me mention 'bootable flag'.

2) Did or did i not say that no matter what was on the hard drive
(DOS, Win98SE, Win2K), or format (DOS: FAT15; Win98SE: FAT6, FAT32;
Win2K:FAT6, FAT32, NTFS), that the hard drive will *not* boot!

Yea, I _did_ specifically mention BIOS, and UPGRADE YOUR SYSTEM.
A new mobo of recent design goes for less the 60 Euro, a reasonble
complete modern 64 bit AMD PC for 400Euro, les if yo ualready have
the disk.
Of course DOS, Win98SE, Win2K, FAT15; Win98SE: FAT6, FAT32, Win2K, NTFS
do not work, we all knwo that, that is why real man run Linux.
(With ext2, ext3, Reiserfs etc).
And Linux is free www.grml.org.

Just give up on MS DOS, it is of the past.


I also mentioned that programs onthat drive do work.

So boot from an other drive then.

Regards
The Rendeer

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