I've used a copy of Ontrack Disk Manager (~version 4?) from Seagate and it works with any brand drive. If you still need it, I can dig it out when I'm home in a couple of weeks and image it. I believe it will work with any settings in the BIOS, although it does recommend certain ones. T.H.x. Devon --------Original Message--------- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 09:52:29 +0200 From: Gooijen H <GOOI(a)oce.nl> Subject: RE: access to BIOS of DECpc I found the SET320P.EXE program on the COMPAQ site, and it allows several items 'normally' found in a BIOS to be manipulated. Alas, there is no field to change the hard drive parameters nor the type! The disk manager was a good idea, I have one old 486 PC with a big Western Digital drive, too big to be supported by the BIOS, and the EZ-DRIVE disk manager works perfectly here. However, EZ-DRIVE only accepts to work with Western Digital drives, and the 2.5" hard disk that I have is from HP. The disk manager also wants certain settings for the hard disk in the BIOS ... Still not giving up / one more try: could somebody point me to a site that has a non-commercial disk manager (for HP or not restricted to specific HDDs) or even better e-mail a ZIP with such disk manager? TIA, - Henk, PA8PDP.