Hi,
I recently had a customer bring in a computer with a 4Gig hard drive
that had died. The smallest drive I had on hand was 40GB and the
computer did not recognize that large a drive.
My solution was a PCI IDE card from StarTech. This allowed me to avoid
drive overlay software and I could boot to the new hard drive without
any problems. The cost was only $44 for my customer, much less than
replacing the motherboard would have been, and she can now use this hard
drive on a new computer in the future without losing any of the data on
it. The IDE card is at: http://tinyurl.com/1c41
Elizabeth Boston
Moderator/Senior Editor
The NOSPIN Group
The Computer Lady
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-----Original Message-----
> I tried to install a 80Gb IBM drive (120GXP) in a Pentium 120, and the
> motherboard only seems to recognize 8 Gb. How can I install the drive
> so the motherboard can recognize 80Gb, not 8Gb?
>
> I can't find the motherboard's name. I look all over, and I can't see
> it. It's a I430vx chipset, the bios is an AWARD MODULAR. The bios
> version: 4.51PG.
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