Reply 20 of 33, by douglar
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wbahnassi wrote on 2021-12-06, 14:24:I was wondering if there was a way to get the CF Card to report 500MB of capacity to the BIOS instead of its real 4GB?
Computer won't boot? Perhaps you have Phoenix BIOS 4.03 or 4.04 ? Those bios would crash if they even tried to imagine capacities over 3277 MB.
If you have a 486sx, you should almost certaily be able to go into the bios and slelect some combination of heads/sectors/tracks to go less than <528MB and that will let your system boot. IDE remaps everything, so you can change values with impunity.
Then you can install drive overlay software to see all of the space. http://vogonsdrivers.com/index.php?catid=19