Reply 20 of 29, by Deksor
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wrote:This also can be a 32 GB limit, some of the boards were limited to that. If your hard disk has jumpers for 32GB mode, worth trying that. If this indeed is working, you'll only loose a 1/4 of the drive space which is not that bad.
On my W98 machine I'm using a 80 GB drive in 32 GB mode, loosing more than a half... I'm going to try it with a SD to IDE adapter and a 32 GB SD card soon.
Indeed this is most likely the infamous award bios bug (because yes it is a bug) that crashes when a HDD bigger than 32gb is detected. However you can solve it by patching the BIOS. If you image your bios for me I can attempt to patch it ^^ (and no need for a eeprom writer either, you can do that with the motherboard).
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