From: "Olin Lathrop"

> How is any software that isn't part of the bios supposed to help the
bios
> see the disk drive?

It doesn't help the BIOS at all really.  The BIOS still misidentifies
the drive size, but the Ontrack "virus" lives in the MBR of the drive
and runs as soon as the BIOS loads it.  It then "fixes" the low memory
storage locations that the BIOS has already filled in with incorrect
info.  It may also hook the interrupts so that later calls to it return
more correct information, but I'm not sure on that one.

The OP needs to upgrade his BIOS if possible for the best fix.  I would
only resort to Ontrack if a BIOS upgrade wasn't possible.  His computer
will probably only "see" drives that are <8GB.

Sometime when you have nothing better to do ;-) you should look at the
history of the "fixes" that have been made over the years to accommodate
ever increasing drive size.  It's amazing that each step has been to
only allow for a moderately larger drive than the preceding format.  I
think the current limitation is something less than 200GB.

michael brown

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