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| 114690 | 2003-01-17 10:07:00 | I thave run out of Hard drive space and will need to put in another hard drive into my machine the mother board is DIAMOND FLOWER, p2xlx/e, PII 300. Is there any restriction on the size that I can add? Martin |
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| 114691 | 2003-01-17 10:23:00 | Any restriction could depend on your operating system. Which is? | godfather (25) | ||
| 114692 | 2003-01-17 10:54:00 | windows 98 | rev2000 (3021) | ||
| 114693 | 2003-01-17 11:01:00 | from memory, win 98 can handle a max of 32 Mb HDD | BillGates (2238) | ||
| 114694 | 2003-01-17 11:13:00 | usually the bios will restict the size so se the manafactures site first. i think hardrive overlay can get around this problem. windows has no problem with 32 gig drives its just the biggest you can do with fat 32 is 32 gig so all you do is partition the dive into multiable drives. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 114695 | 2003-01-17 19:55:00 | if the bios date is after jan 1998, chances are good there will be no limitations to cause you problems. if the date is earlier, you might find you run against the 8.4gb limitation. as tweak'e says, see if you can find a bios update or use the dynamic drive overlay software that hdd manufacturers offer on their websites. | glenn (177) | ||
| 114696 | 2003-01-17 20:10:00 | >windows has no problem with 32 gig drives its just the biggest you can do with fat 32 is 32 gig so all you do is partition the dive into multiable drives. ???? I set up a win98 machine ages ago that had a 40gig HDD without partitions.. No problems at all. Shall i be confused at this point? I did find that restriction applies to my own computers, but they have VA503+ mobos and there is the bios problem talked about above. This is nothing that a small patch from the seagate site wont fix! Sam runs with an 80gig HDD .Clueless |
Clueless (181) | ||
| 114697 | 2003-01-17 22:32:00 | If you get a Seagate drive they provide a software fix that is loaded at bootup that allows your bios to use all of the drive and you can partition it into less-than-32gig lumps for Win 98. I have an 80gig 7200rpm Barracuda Seagate drive running under Win 98 on a PIII mobo that has the 8gig bios limit and it runs sweet. I partitioned it into 20 gig lots and have had no trouble at all. The drive cost about $240 but with the high exchange rate at the moment they should be getting a lot cheaper. Other drive manufacturers have probably got similar fixes. Regards, andy |
andy (473) | ||
| 114698 | 2003-01-18 05:53:00 | Am I missing something? What's this about Win98 having maximum 32gb or whatever HDD or partition size. I use win98 (1st edn) with 80gb Seagate in 2x40gb partitions and never encountered any problems at any stage remotely connected with partition or gb size. (Also have a Seagate 20gb on same machine, same OS, same no problem). On Bill Gates' answer above , Bill presumably meant 32gb and not 32mb. |
rugila (214) | ||
| 114699 | 2003-01-20 07:13:00 | As requila said, I have done the same on a customers PC, your best option is a 3rd party disk partitioning utility such as PartitionMagic. Multiple partitions may help but it seems that NTFS & moving from partitions to "Volumes" is Microsofts future. |
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