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Old June 6th 08, 04:18 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion,microsoft.public.win98.performance
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Default Problems Defraging Sys Drive (C:)

Certain BIOS limitations will not allow use of a drive over their limit,
period, without overlay. The problem is associated with the drive sector
addressing...

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| On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 23:11:09 -0400, "glee"
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| Since my BIOS has a problem with a limit of 32Gig, and I have a 40Gig
hard
| drive, I really wonder if the problem is not the EZ Bios. Would appear
that
| is the utility. So there is a poss of a conflict. I need the EZ-Bios
to
| see above 32Gig, yet I am trying to defrag a logical drive that is part
of a
| 40Gig physical drive. As I said, I can defrag the other logical
drives,
| just not C:.
|
| I would have just created two partitions. Make the first one 32gigs
| (or less) and the second one 8 gigs (or more).
| Then you dont need that software from the drive mfgr.
| (Those smaller partitions are a good place to store digital photos or
| music).