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| Thread ID: 59507 | 2005-07-04 11:12:00 | Large/Huge Hard Drive on an older Motherboard | Chemical Ali (118) | Press F1 |
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| 369307 | 2005-07-04 11:12:00 | I have "inherited" an older Gigabyte motherboard (GA-6VX-4X). It is a slot 1 motherboard with a P3 550MHz CPU and 128MB RAM onboard as well as a 3GB hard drive. I installed Windows 2000 on it just to test that it still works okay. Initially I was just going to let the thing gather dust but then I thought about utilising it as the basis for a cheap Jukebox PC in the bedroom -- this will make 2 jukebox PCs and a total of 4 PCs in the house but what the hell (Missus thinks I'm mad!!). All I really need to purchase is some more 2nd-hand (PC100) RAM and a larger hard drive to store all my MP3/WAV files as well as an XP Pro upgrade license so that I can run the thing via Remote desktop connection from my laptop. In regards to the hard drive I was looking at something in the 160-200GB size region. I have contacted Gigabyte's support desk about the board who advise that even with the latest BIOS flash (which I am loath to do!) the board only supports drives up to a mximum size of 137GB. What I was wandering was -- say I purchased a 200GB drive and intended using at as the secondary (data) drive (3Gb drive remains as master drive with OS installed) -- could I partition it into four 50GB partitions on another machine and then connect it up this motherboard and be able to see/access/utilize all of the drive's space?? Comments and insights please!! |
Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 369308 | 2005-07-04 12:03:00 | Or would it simply be easier to add a USB2 PCI Card to the motherboard and run the 200GB drive as an external drive? | Chemical Ali (118) | ||
| 369309 | 2005-07-04 12:47:00 | just install an ata or sata card and connect the big drive to that. a slot 1 motherboard is going to max at ata66 so you an addon card should run faster as well. | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 369310 | 2005-07-04 22:00:00 | Rather than fork out for an XP lisence, why don't you just run VNC on 2k? VNC is almost as good as remote desktop sharing, and is free. Surely the few convienent features of XP that 2k doesn't have aren't worth almost $500 to you (or $200 if you are a student). | Greven (91) | ||
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