cmc
Experienced Member
Hi Helpful VCF Folks,
I have a rather standard 486 with the following specs:
DTK PKM-0038s E-1 motherboard
AMD 5x86 133mhz
36mb ram
I use a StarTech IDE compact flash adapter with a 4gb compact flash card attached as a disk. BIOS recognizes this card as about 1800mb. But I could never get it formatted to more than 503mb. Windows 3.1 only ever sees that 503mb.
I accepted this when I upgraded the machine to use a CF card a few years ago... after all, 500mb or so is all we had when it was new. But now I am starting to fill it (with old games, what else) and would like to migrate to more space, even if all I can get is the 1800mb that BIOS recognizes.
So, I wonder what advice you all might have for that? Could I just back up all the files, partition the CF card in another computer, and then move the files back (with appropriate MBR changes and such)? Will I need to install some software to Win3.1?
Thanks as always!
I have a rather standard 486 with the following specs:
DTK PKM-0038s E-1 motherboard
AMD 5x86 133mhz
36mb ram
I use a StarTech IDE compact flash adapter with a 4gb compact flash card attached as a disk. BIOS recognizes this card as about 1800mb. But I could never get it formatted to more than 503mb. Windows 3.1 only ever sees that 503mb.
I accepted this when I upgraded the machine to use a CF card a few years ago... after all, 500mb or so is all we had when it was new. But now I am starting to fill it (with old games, what else) and would like to migrate to more space, even if all I can get is the 1800mb that BIOS recognizes.
So, I wonder what advice you all might have for that? Could I just back up all the files, partition the CF card in another computer, and then move the files back (with appropriate MBR changes and such)? Will I need to install some software to Win3.1?
Thanks as always!