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First post, by GabrielKnight123

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I have been successful in getting Ontrack Disk Manager to create 4 partitions at 2GB each on a hard drive on a 386 but I had to reinstall everything because I missed something and when I cleared the Bios settings for the hard drives Cylinder/Heads/Sectors I did not write them down, I have looked around and the only info I can find for my drive is here:

https://www.seagate.com/files/www-content/sup … msung/v9100.pdf

The HDD is the Samsung SV1363D with 13.6GB capacity. Do I need to know the exact values or would 1023/16/63 be ok to get 8GB?

Reply 1 of 3, by keropi

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Since you have successfully install Disk Manager then the BIOS settings do not matter - just select a random fixed disk type in the BIOS and it will work. Even if you chose a 10MB HDD in the BIOS once Disk Manager loads from the HDD it will replace the BIOS functions with it's own and your HDD will be accessed to it's full capacity. You only need a random value so that the computer knows there is a HDD connected - nothing more.

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Reply 2 of 3, by Jo22

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GabrielKnight123 wrote:

or would 1023/16/63 be ok

Afaik, some BIOSes count like this: Cylinders 0-1023 / Heads 0-15 / Sectors 1-63.
Source: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/linux/Large-Disk-4.html

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