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| Thread ID: 21369 | 2002-06-24 06:22:00 | 60gb hard drive in old computer | NighT wALKER (604) | Press F1 |
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| 56900 | 2002-06-24 06:22:00 | Ok i have a 60gb hard drive, pretty much full of stuff, and want to know what will happen if i plug it into my fathers old skool computer, 200mhz, running win 95. The info is fat32, but just concerned if the bios, and mother board can handel it, or if it will truncate the information after a certain size | NighT wALKER (604) | ||
| 56901 | 2002-06-24 07:21:00 | Given the age of your computer, it is quite likely that you will be limited to using only 8.4GB of hard disk. This is a limitation of the computer's BIOS, and the only solutions are to upgrade your computer's BIOS (can render your computer unusable if done wrong), or to buy specialised 3rd party drivers (costly). One thing that you might like to try is a utility available at web.inter.nl.net Amongst other things, it will tell you whether your BIOS supports drives larger that 8GB. You never know, you might be lucky. If your BIOS is too old, then you're pretty much out of luck. You could try to upgrade the BIOS, but it'll be difficult to find a BIOS for a motherboard that old, and unless you know what you're doing you can make the computer completely unusable. |
JamieA (546) | ||
| 56902 | 2002-06-24 07:32:00 | If you have two jumpers you can make the bios and Windows see more than 8.4GB. I have a 40 GB harddrive with a bios that can only see 8.4GB without the extra jumper. with extra jumper it can see 33GB. :) |
NathanTheKind (472) | ||
| 56903 | 2002-06-24 07:34:00 | There,s a few problems there First ,the bios will almost certain not recognise the 60g hdd without a bios update. Second ,w95 will probably not work with fat 32.depends what version. third ,is if you have an OS on the 60g hdd , you have to make it the slave drive and hope that it does not affect the boot hdd. and if i am wrong about all that ,just plug it in and see what happens :D :D |
tech_mister (433) | ||
| 56904 | 2002-06-24 08:22:00 | my dear ol Vanessa, an older machine, will not support HD's larger than 30 No way around this the solution, ultimaitly was to build another machine, and place extra space in that. |
Chris Wilson (431) | ||
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