O.T.: Win2k installer vs. BIOS HDD barries - what you think?
Posted: Fri May 16, 2003 5:47 am
--Notice: I written this topic after readed the above topic:
http://www.wimsbios.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=16520
Before you read this topic I suggest you check the topic of prior link; even both are not the same thing, some interessing information on the prior link are aplicable on this one (that you are reading now).
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Hey folks, read this real story (even if can appear as not):
Some weeks ago, a technican guy showed me how to go above 8.4 GB simply with Windows 2000 installer using the Windows 2000 CD-ROM. He configure the BIOS SETUP manually entering Cyl. ~39500 (a thing that I don't like), Hds. 16, Sec. 63. The mainboard (from I remember) was a ZIDA Tomato 6MLX, using AMI HiFlex Setup dated from 1998 middle's (+/- May month), and the HD a 20GB one.
BIOS displayed ~20000 MB at post summary on Primary Master IDE; Fdisk still displayed as 8.4 GB. At this time, he deleted any existent partition with the knew Fdisk thing, leaving the HDD as blank\unformated. After all that, he entered the Windows 2000 Proffessional CD-ROM and start a install from zero. When it gone on HDD partitioning, the guy choosen to create FAT32 Primary Parttion with all 20GB size, leave installer do the job, and after it created and formated (no DOS Format used, nor Fdisk) he canceled the instaler. Then, he entered a Win98SE CD-ROM and done a Windows 98SE install and configured the system, and blablabla the usual things (Dial up config, e-mails acount, Defrag C:, ... leaving to config things as newest video drive, DMA transfers enabling, Mentest86 before O.S. install, etc.).
Well, ending this posting, I could not saw the Defrag and ScanDisk tests (just the funny part, on that all story, IIRC) but after that was done the system was still running (how good? I unknown), not displayed BSOD's and could reboot.
Any oppinions?
(sorry english erros; I do not know much of english)
http://www.wimsbios.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=16520
Before you read this topic I suggest you check the topic of prior link; even both are not the same thing, some interessing information on the prior link are aplicable on this one (that you are reading now).
-----
Hey folks, read this real story (even if can appear as not):
Some weeks ago, a technican guy showed me how to go above 8.4 GB simply with Windows 2000 installer using the Windows 2000 CD-ROM. He configure the BIOS SETUP manually entering Cyl. ~39500 (a thing that I don't like), Hds. 16, Sec. 63. The mainboard (from I remember) was a ZIDA Tomato 6MLX, using AMI HiFlex Setup dated from 1998 middle's (+/- May month), and the HD a 20GB one.
BIOS displayed ~20000 MB at post summary on Primary Master IDE; Fdisk still displayed as 8.4 GB. At this time, he deleted any existent partition with the knew Fdisk thing, leaving the HDD as blank\unformated. After all that, he entered the Windows 2000 Proffessional CD-ROM and start a install from zero. When it gone on HDD partitioning, the guy choosen to create FAT32 Primary Parttion with all 20GB size, leave installer do the job, and after it created and formated (no DOS Format used, nor Fdisk) he canceled the instaler. Then, he entered a Win98SE CD-ROM and done a Windows 98SE install and configured the system, and blablabla the usual things (Dial up config, e-mails acount, Defrag C:, ... leaving to config things as newest video drive, DMA transfers enabling, Mentest86 before O.S. install, etc.).
Well, ending this posting, I could not saw the Defrag and ScanDisk tests (just the funny part, on that all story, IIRC) but after that was done the system was still running (how good? I unknown), not displayed BSOD's and could reboot.
Any oppinions?
(sorry english erros; I do not know much of english)