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| 238780 | 2004-05-23 10:38:00 | Can anyone please advise me on how to find out what the Max size new hard drive I can fit into my 5 year old Gateway PC? I currently have an 8.4G which is starting to become "a little to noisy" & full for my liking, so I would like to replace it with something larger. Can anyone advise me what steps I can take to find out up to what size I can replace it with. Have tried e-mailing Gateway, but no reply from them. Current Config: 433 Celeron 440 BX Motherboard AMI Bios 4R4x ???? |
Milkbottle (3454) | ||
| 238781 | 2004-05-23 11:40:00 | How much do you want to put on an old machine? If you added a 20-30 GB disk I would think this would be OK and probably matches the CPU capabilities. | linw (53) | ||
| 238782 | 2004-05-23 13:24:00 | I cannot give you advice on how to findout what you looking for, but from my pass experience and judging from your specs, I think the maximum hard disc support you can use will only be 40G. | Blue_face (1148) | ||
| 238783 | 2004-05-23 14:39:00 | Thanks, was thinking of 20G. Don't need to go much bigger, was just wanting an idea of what the upper limit would be when it comes time to replace. Is there anyway in the BIOS setup or an application that can tell me what is it's limit? | Milkbottle (3454) | ||
| 238784 | 2004-05-23 19:20:00 | IF YOU use a IDE controller card (a.k.a raid controller card) there is no effective limit concerning your bios cause the card will bypass the bios limitations...... | drcspy (146) | ||
| 238785 | 2004-05-23 20:05:00 | I have in the past overcome BIOS H/D limitations by partioning the hard drive, sure the BIOS still reconises as a smaller drive but for some reason when windows takes over the full drive is reconised and the partions are accessable, I also have a pc also that the slave drive is not reconised by the BIOS but windows dispalys it and allows me to use it. I think Windows 95 also has some limitations as far as drive sizes are concerned. If you are using this O/S It maybe a good idea to do a search on google to check this, or wait a while and see if someone comments on my reply to you reguarding this |
beama (111) | ||
| 238786 | 2004-05-23 20:49:00 | Windows 95A has a 32GB limit with FAT16, but Windows 95B and 95C with FAT32 can go up to 2TB, ie no limit in effect subject to bios limitations. Up to about 1998 the bios limit was 8.4GB. The ways round this are to use either a dynamic overlay downloadable from the HDD manufacturers site or, as already said, an IDE controller card with its own bios. Most probably with a 5 year old computer the bios will recognise larger drives than that. It may not be possible nowadays to actually buy a new 20GB drive. It wouldnt matter if you had a much bigger one and only used part of it. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 238787 | 2004-05-23 21:00:00 | actually there have been several bios limitations........ 512mb......2Gb.....8.4Gb.....13Gb......as far as I recall anyway..... | drcspy (146) | ||
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