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Today, I noticed my machine was a bit sluggish on the internet. Finally, frustrated, I rebooted to DOS and ran a scan disk. It gave me an error message suggesting that my Logical Block Addressing (LBA) may need to be enabled. Unfortunately, I cannot access this in the configuration menu. Does anyone know how to access a 600E's LBA settings in the BIOS? Is there another, perhaps more normal-looking BIOS menu that can be reached. The only one I have been able to find is brought up when I press F1 at startup.

Thanks.

If LBA is not available in BIOS, the only way I know to enable/control it is to install a disk overlay (DDO) program from the hard drive manufacturer. This requires reformatting the drive with the overlay program. You could also try reinitializing BIOS and rebooting. There should be an option in BIOS to do that.

Thank you for the suggestion. As it happened, I had downloaded such a program when I reinstalled Windows, but never used it.

I'm pleased to report that it seems to have worked.