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| 14980 | 2001-07-04 06:07:00 | Hi would a Pentium-S 75MHz with 8MB EDO Ram work with a 10GB Hard disk? I know it should silly to have something new in something ancient but will it work? | Guest (0) | ||
| 14981 | 2001-07-04 07:02:00 | I think it could work but probably the thing you need to watch for is the bios, if its too old it might not recognise the 10gb properly. | Guest (0) | ||
| 14982 | 2001-07-04 07:03:00 | Hi, Yip...You might need to use FDisk to install it tho. But it will work. Ken. |
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| 14983 | 2001-07-04 08:04:00 | I recently installed a 10GB drive in a P75 cos I couldn't get hold of a smaller drive. It worked ok, but the bios only recognised 2GB of the drive. | Guest (0) | ||
| 14984 | 2001-07-04 09:24:00 | Great, And so did u waste the 8GB? By the way I lost my password to get in to the bios, do you know any way of resetting it? Removing batties etc...? |
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| 14985 | 2001-07-04 09:27:00 | Hi S.Y. Further to the others comments,you will be able to get Windows to recognise the full 10GB, by going to the Hardrive manufacturers website and downloading their free disk installation utility, they all have one >> following excerpt courtesy of Langalist newsletter >> I saw where you talked about hard drive 'overlay' software, or soft-BIOS software; that allows an old BIOS to 'see' a new, larger hard drive....To obtain the hard drive software, all a person has to do is to go to the website of the respective manufacturer. The soft-BIOS software for most hard drives can be downloaded for free. For instance: Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools -- www.wdc.com Maxtor MaxBlast Plus -- www.maxtor.com Seagate DiscWizard -- www.seagate.com Quantum Ontrack Disk Manager 2000 -- service.quantum.com IBM Disk Manager 2000 -- www.storage.ibm.com Fujitsu OnTrack DiskGo -- www.ontrack.com All of these downloads are free, though each of them can only be used on its respective manufacturer's brand of hard drive. (These are all IDE/EIDE versions, by the way Alan |
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| 14986 | 2001-07-05 11:26:00 | The 2gb limit sounds like a FAT16 problem as that is the maximum size FAT16 supports. If you are using Win95b or newer you can format it as FAT32, or if you are using Win95a use FDisk to create extra partitions to use the rest of the disk, although FAT16 is pretty inefficient with partitions that big. There probably will be some BIOS limits as already mentioned. |
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