Thanks to all who replied, great suggestions. I did get a 1GB CF card working with the 386 laptop today. On the P4 where I was attempting to prepare the CF card, I changed the HD bios settings. I turned off LBA auto mode and used manual mode instead with CHS config values from the 386. Then Seagate …

Thanks for the reply will try EZ tomorrow. One point to add is the 386 laptop floppy is not working so I am trying to add the drive overlay using a Pentium 4 system. Could it be the drive overlay software is checking the P4 bios and thinking an overlay is not required with an 1GB or 2GB drive and …

Trying to install a 1GB CF or 2GB HD to a Dell 320n 386 laptop. The bios allows selecting from 47 different drive types all with fixed CHS values. Does not seem to be a way to enter user values even on type 47. I tried OnTrack 9.57 overlay software but with drives under 2GB it just formats, no …