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i have an old micron system running win98, i am trying to install an IBM Deskstar 30gb hard drive. the bios does not support anything over 2gb drive. there are no bios upgrades available according to tech support. they also say the hard drive will come with a "bios overlay" program that will allow the system to see the whole drive. is this true?

...and i would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for you meddling kids...

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Check out this link. I also have an IBM Deskstar. I think this'll work for you: <A HREF="http://www.storage.ibm.com/hdd/support/download.htm#Installation" target="_new">Disk Manager 2000</A>

Kernel32.dll error...aw, son of a.... :eek:

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I tried it on my Pentium 166 before. It works great.


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