Will this Work, 2nd HDD 1

[lonewolfsas]

Hi, My friend has a majorly old 7 year old PC at the moment (keep telling him to buy a new one!!). He's wanting to installin a second hard drive. He wants to get a 40 GB Maxtor DiamondMax Plus8 7200rpm ATA133 2MB Cache. Currently he is using a Fujitsu MPC3064at 6GB, and he now needs more space. The motherboard he's using is a Systemboard PC266 M810 series.

Question is will this work for him, or will extra equipment need to be purchased. Any comments would be great help.

Thanks in Advance
Daniel

 

[ski]

The biggest question is "Will the MB's BIOS recognize the new HD?"
And the answer is maybe.

If it's not recognized, then 3 options are normally used to work around it:
-Update the BIOS.
-Use the software that usually comes with the HD.
-Install a PCI IDE controller card.

 

[wolluf]

7 year old machine unlikely to recognise > 32GB drive. One other option - maxtor drives usually have a limiter jumper setting - so drive appears as 32GB to the bios (and only 32GB available of course - but may be worth trying).

 

[jward52]

How about partitioning the 40gb into two 20gb drives? No problem with the 32gb limit. Not sure if that'll work but it's worth a try.