Hi,

You can probably find similar sized drives used for $10-30 at computer shows,
flea markets, yard sales, repair shops. The Bios probably has some size
limitation
due to the age of the system, I forget the various levels.

You can use a Disk overlay program to fool the BIOS and run a newer much
larger hard drive, that
often comes with reatil boxed drives.  They are downloadable from the web
also. - I have always tried to stay away from them if possible.  Just
another level of something to go wrong.

You should really increase the memory to 32M minimum for windows 98 - the
more memory you put in the better windows performs.



At 08:43 AM 01/22/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I have to replace my hard drive (2.1 ST32120A segate) in my older Packard
Bell (M400) computer which after tests show physical damage and I  need to
know how big or small of one I can replace it with or does it matter? What
about capability? (memory is 16 mb and was running win95 upgraded to 98se)
>Any suggestions on buying use ones?or where?
>
>thank-you
>
>Dawn Rodgers
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