Deksor wrote on 2022-06-12, 23:40: Maybe a BIOS mod could work ? It's not entirely impossible, but it's not easy either. It looks like it would be the only option, but far over my coding skills...

pentiumspeed wrote on 2022-06-13, 01:08: Pick up any PATA drive even 100GB and put it in and set the capacity via BIOS setting like 500MB and use fdisk and format to see? Cheers, Not possible with stock BIOS as there is no option to choose for the HDD model type (querying and autodetecting the HDD …

Any news on this topic ? Yesterday I've got a T1800 in very good condition, but unfortunately the HDD (MK1122FC) is not working. I've opened it to check if the head is stuck, but it is not a case.. The drive is starting to spinning for 5 sec then it restart itself (restart the spin cycle...). From …