Adding new Hard Drive 1

[mlang]

I have the enjoyable task of replacing a hard drive on an ancient PC. This is a frankenstein system that was put together with bits and pieces of others. Is there a limit as to the size hard drive I can put in this antique? Running fine now - just want more storage space. It currently has a 640MB and I'm trying to upgrade it to a 6.4 GB but the BIOS won't recognize it. Is it the size or something completely different?

 

[guldan]

u need to check the specks for your motherboard & bios<br>
you'll probably have to update the bios

 

[sdsmith]

If it is really old you may need to run drive translation software as well as flash the bios. this software usually comes with the hdd.

 

[ndogg]

Depending on your OS...oh wait, you'll probably be using Windows (should've figured). You'll need software that can tell your OS what the geometry of the hd is. <p>REH<br><a href=mailto:hawkdogg@crosswinds.net>hawkdogg@crosswinds.net</a><br><a href=

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[kreep]

I had to do the same thing with my computer. I was installing a 12 gig HD and it would only recognize 512megs of it. What I did was installed windows on it how it was and I downloaded a program that allowed me to use the entire HD the only thing is that it's running on win95 so it's on FAT16 and I had to seperate the HD into 6 different drives. What you'll probably want to do is goto the website of your HD manufacturer and see what they have for large HD support. Something like Dynamic Drive Overlay.

 

[Alt255]

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[ATCal]

If the bios recognizes the 640 for its full size, then you do have LBA. Some early versions however maxed out at 2 GIG (this is independant of the 2 GIG limit in DOS or non-FAT32 Windows). The next level was 8 GIG. <br>If the board is that old you may never find a bios upgrade if it even is flash upgradeable!