Receintly we added 5.1 gig drives to our HP Vectra 6/150's and had a similar
problem.  The problem stems from the fact that most bios versions prior to
January 1997 are unable to recognize drives greater than 2 gig and the 16bit FAT
table set up by dos or windows 95 can't handle drives bigger than 2 gig.
(Automagic Problem) ;')

Your Options.

1. There should be partition software from the maker of the Hard Drive to allow
you to partition the drive into 2 or more partitions and put your software back
on.

2. Get Windows 95 OSR2(OEM Service Release 2) which has the ability to format a
drive using a 32bit FAT table.

3. Get Windows NT which can do the same with NTFS.

I suggest the first, Bill Gates has too much money already.


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Subject:    Off-Topic: Compaq Pasario
Author: Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
Date:       4/24/97 6:12 AM

/Note:  If you're not familiar with Compaq's Pasario line you may want to
 stop reading and circular-file this message now.
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So we placed the 3.1 WD in it and the auto-config logic which Compaq seems to
have to setup BIOS apparently doesn't have a corresponding drive type in its
table, but went ahead and set it up as what appears to be a 2.1 GB unit.  So
we went ahead to see if we could proceed anyway to at least get the system
back up.

Unfortunately the 'QuickRestore' tool, to rebuild the drive and load all the
software from CD aborted with:

         "Fatal Error 1: Image Builder Error. BPB: too big for FAT"