wow , Sorry I am so l8t into this topic... (Great Toshibas and upgrades!) also have a Toshiba T3100e... and wanted last day to upgrade my hard disk. but it so backfired.
I change drive(to a WD Caviar 43AA) but keep getting Hard Disk controller error ... (the original is just 2 small cp3022 disk and I don't want to damage it by using it 2 much)...
I wanted to try an orverlay software but I cant even format the dam drive.... (I dont care how much space I get from the drive , it will be probably 40-100mb) important thing is that I don't use the original (so I can save/keep)it as much as possible....
Wanted to do some overlaying - Ontrack Disk Manger (*or Fujistu Disk Manager ver 9.52) seems to give me more bios variants ... up to 104.8mb (in CMOS Dryve Type - 776cyls/8hds/33spt) ... problem is it dosent identify the WD 43AA. I have a small fujitsu ultra ata change mode utility v1.19 hdd app - UDMA100C.exe (or UDMA33/66/100.bat) that shows the drive as plugged in on ATA - but it shows it as an Unexpected Drive....
I would love to use this hdd , I dont want to waste more space with larger disk , and I dont have any smaller ones (may have a second disk that I could try but is 4gb also). (I dont want 2 much space , but I dont want to put a 40 gb or 80 or 160gb good drive in that bios only sees as 40-100mb)
I talked to someone that had a video on youtube and could confirm that he uses a large EDIE 160gb drive (I think it was WD? or seagate hmm need to chkeck - however he was limited by bios to format the 160gb drive to 100mb , but it worked! )
Theoretically there is an application (exe) called ANYDRIVE that should be able to extend your drives to up to bios limit of 1024cylinder 16 heads and 64 sectors per track but I don't know how to use it , and I suspect you need to have the drive already formated before using it.
P.S. Can we install Grub or use any tools from Hirens-Boot-15.2DVD? or 80286 is just to old for that stuff....
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(have laptop from about 2008 maybe longer -got it from a friend as a trow/away-gift. At first floppy acted up but managed to start it just by cleaning and using it , even if it refused 5-20 first tries to see disks - now it works great 1.44MB/disk problem is I don't have only about 50 disks , hdd - 20mb was plugged in wrong and did not see it properly so it hung a lot of times , managed last year to fix that seeing the error - 2 pins from drive were not connected - was 1 row sideways plugged.)
L.E. I made some progress, but I am missing some steps I fear....
so WD utility seems ok with new drive in Toshiba.... WDTBLCHK sees it(even HDDID.exe) ,(as drv.1), and WDDIAG 2.60 runs great...
It Verifies Drive and I even Low formated , No errors found. Ez.exe Partitions it great (you can select fat16 or far32 1-4 partitions), even transfers files(Like Command.com) from Win95 boot disk or MS-DOS 6.22 Disk 1....
Problems is , it still get the error and not booting , maybe I need to do something additional step to this endevour.... problem is I an not quite sure what...
and what step I am skipping?!....
I cant find any EZ-Drive 9.06 Manual anywhere.... so I have to improvise as I am moving along....
When I do anything in EZ-Drive.EXE it wants to reboot the system , is there a /command to skip this?