Most older motherboards have an 8.4Gb limit on Hard Drives, the original
LBA hard drive limitation is 16 times the 527 Mb older limitation of
1024 cylinders by 16 Heads by 63 Sectors/Track.  Then each partition,
under Dos, is limited to 2.1Gb in size.

So, my guess is that you need a new Hard Drive controller (or perhaps a
Momboard firmware upgrade, as the HDC is likely on the momboard?) to
allow you to install that new Hard Drive and use it's entire size.

One way to do it is to replace the momboard with a new momboard, and
network the two machines together.

I can find you a new 8.4 Gb HDD locally, if you cannot find one, for
$109.00 USD (http://www.hdnw.com/all_drives.asp?) - plus shipping,
pretty easy to get smaller used drives for cheaper, also.

  Mark

Paul B. Webster VK2BZC wrote:
>
> My absence from the list (OK, so who noticed?) most of this week has
> been due to the mind-bendingly challenging task of trying to replace my
> uncomfortably-full 3 GB main drive with a brand spanking new 15 GB one.
>
>   Do you think there's a good tutorial somewhere on the 3 GB or so DOS/
> Windoze95/ partition table limitation and how one overcomes it?  M$ are
> as helpful as ever.
>
>   I am back to the 3 GB drive for now - I could get the larger one to
> run under Windoze but not under DOS (which is of course required to boot
> Windoze!).
> --
>   Cheers,
>         Paul B.

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