Hard drive upgrades

[Tony Alfrey]

On Tuesday 22 October 2002 02:45 pm,Net Llama! wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, David Aikema wrote:
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>
> > I seem to recall that Windows 98 has problems seeing all of a
> > larger drive, but IIRC linux can get around any bios restrictions. 
> > If the motherboard and/or windows were to only see part of the
> > drive, but I were to be able to access all of it with linux, would
> > it prove to be a problem to install windows on the first section of
> > the drive (which it can see) and then install linux on the
> > remaining portion of the drive, or would that end up getting
> > detected as partition table corruption?  Also, don't some hard
> > drives ship with tools that run at boottime before firing up
> > windows that will enable windows to see the full capacity of the
> > drive... could I run that alongside lilo?
>
> With windoze all bets are off.  It might eat the entire drive and not
> know it.  As for tools such as EZBIOS, you either use them, or you
> use LILO, you can't put both in the MBR.  Linux doesn't need EZBIOS. 
> WIth windoze, who knows.
>
> Why not keep the 10GB drive for windoze, and install the 60GB for
> LInux?

While I do not have big drives, I dual-boot Win 98 and linux on one 
drive and other linux on other drives.  I use Partition Magic to make 
sure Win98 stays put in the low end of the drive, then partition the 
drive, and linux goes on the new partition.  I run Boot Magic as a 
chain loader (goes in MBR of boot drive, installs from Win98) to go 
everywhere.  But I'm almost absolutely sure that you can put LILO (the 
new version that has no 1024 cyl limit) in the MBR after Win98 and 
after linux and boot both.
But drives are cheap and I like the above solution (10GB for Win98, 
60GB for linux).

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