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Old 12-12-2006, 09:33 PM   #1
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Need a work-around for non LBA-48 bios


I have a bios that may not support LBA-48, and I need to use a 320GB hd as the only hd in the machine... Any access attempts above 131GB fails miserably and locks the system. Updating the bios is not an option.

Is there a work around for my situation?
 
Old 12-12-2006, 09:44 PM   #2
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A $20 PCI card?
 
Old 12-16-2006, 09:52 PM   #3
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solved...

it was a problem with the filesystem formatting utilities...
i got around this by installing to a smaller hard drive, formatting the partitions. then i put the properly formatted hard drive back as hda and installed fine.
 
  


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