old Thinkpad+ BIG Drive ?

[squalor]

I've got a IBM Thinkpad 760XL. Had it bout 6 months. My brother bought it for me from an insurance co. for $250.00. This one had everything, Dock 1 docking station, 80mgs Ram,20X CD, 2 floppys and an external housing, extra battery, 10T nic, ect. and a bag to hold the works. Oh yea, and a 2.1g Hard Drive.
I hated uninstalling alot of stuff trying to stay under 2gigs so I bought this IBM 14gig
I called IBM.Drive support and was told of a "Disk Overlay Program" and then got bounced to a BIOS tech who told me to flash. I flashed........ and all went well, phew.
Fdisk sees only 8048m of my 14gig drive. I bought an adaptor and formated 13360 in my K6 but when it went back in the laptop it was an invalid drive. It tests OK in BIOS, the flapping bird said so.
When I Fdisk it in the laptop to 8048, the computer will no longer boot to floppy ?
Where's an int13 when you need one ?
Help...

 

[texazed]

Can you try making two 7 Gig partitions on your desktop and then installing it in the laptop? Maybe your BIOS can't recognize dives that big.

 

[Cyberian]

Take a look here or here

I think what the BIOS Tech had you do was to flash the BIOS to the latest level for your 760, but that still limits you to 8.4 GB.
What you need is the IBM BIOS overlay(similar to MaxBlast that someone mentioned in your other thread) called Disk Manager.

 

[squalor]

BINGO !!! Thank you Cyberian !
I got the Disk Manager 2000 software. Blew away the partitions and ran the disk it made. Then ran the 98 boot disk and found the CD in the Dock 1. Everything is great so far. Windows sees 13.1 Gigs.
I really like that 2nd link. I need to hang out there awhile.
Thanks