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Adding larger hard drive.

Discussion in 'Storage and Networking' started by thewolfe, May 29, 2003.

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  1. thewolfe Newcomer, in training

    Adding larger hard drive.

    Is there a way to tell whether a larger hard drive (20GB) can replace any smaller hard drive on an older (Pent I) computer.

    I don't have any particulars because this is a general question.
    thewolfe, May 29, 2003
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  2. young&wild TechSpot Chancellor

    It depends on the motherboard.....chances are you may not be able to do so. Older BIOS in systems bulit around 96 to 97 tend to have a limit of support for HDD up to 8GB. Its not worthwhile fitting a 20GB into a Pent 1, might as well salvage a 8Gb from other non workable workstations.
    young&wild, May 29, 2003
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  3. DigitAlex TechSpot Paladin

    You have to make at least 2 partitions on your HDD and the bootable one must be less than 8 GB. The BIOS will recognize it and boot, the OS will then let you access the other disk space.

    I have a P 166 32 Mb RAM with an old AT mobo which has a 40 GB Maxtor 7200 RPM HDD in it and works fine, even with multiboot :)
    DigitAlex, May 29, 2003
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  4. SNGX1275 TechSpot Special Forces

    couldn't he get an IDE controller card if his mobo's bios doesn't support sizes that large. I thought this could work because the IDE controller card has its own bios on it.
    SNGX1275, May 29, 2003
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