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| Thread ID: 33306 | 2003-05-13 07:41:00 | How Big A Hard drive can I Use? | John D (1571) | Press F1 |
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| 143672 | 2003-05-13 07:41:00 | I would like to replace my hard drive with a larger capacity one. From what I gather from this forum, I just can't throw any ole size in. So the question is, how do I find out what I can use in my system? Thanks John. |
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| 143673 | 2003-05-13 07:43:00 | first of all you have to find out what motherboard you are using.. you can do this by either visual inspection, or you can download a program called sisoft sandra that will tell you what make/model you've got. Once you have that figured out, you can find out almost anything about your motherboard and its capabilities |
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| 143674 | 2003-05-13 08:07:00 | Thanks whetu, Ok,I'll work on that, thanks again. John |
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| 143675 | 2003-05-13 22:58:00 | Aida32 (www.aida32.hu) is another excellent program that should tell you everything you wish to know about your computer. | Susan B (19) | ||
| 143676 | 2003-05-14 10:40:00 | Ok Guy's, I've found my motherboard make and model [Intel Corp D815EEA]. But I can not find my answer to HDD size limit's. |
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| 143677 | 2003-05-14 11:33:00 | Real old motherboards have a HDD size limit of 504Mbytes. Up to about 1998 or so the limit was 8.4Gbytes. From a quick Google search, your motherboard looks about PIII era, so the 8.4 limit should not apply (I guess). The next limit is 137Gbytes. Hope that helps namesake! Johnd |
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| 143678 | 2003-05-14 12:25:00 | Whoa Susan!! Thanks for the tip on that aida programme!!! This is incredible!!! It knows everything! Awsome!! :) :D | PoWa (203) | ||
| 143679 | 2003-05-15 05:57:00 | Thank's JohnD , It is a PIII ,circa 2000 build. So it looks like I can use a moderate size HDD, (40 GB) no problem . That will do the trick I think!! Nice to hear from ya , JohnD John D |
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