you have to format your drive with the ver. of win that supports large
drives and select the 32mb size not the 16mb size as the 16mb size will only
support up to 2gb, I think.I had to do an old dell this way
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ultra" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 5:51 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] New HD installation
> This question has been asked before, the answer is sadly "No", if your
mobo
> won't support large HDD (in your case, it doesn't), you can only use upto
> whatever the mobo sees how big is the HDD (unless you use "special program
> come with them", which I won't use for myself no matter how/when - unless
> someone point a gun to my head ...). Even you changed a new mobo later,
the
> size won't change automatically unless you erase the HDD and start over
> again (sometime Fdisk won't fix the mis-size problem, you will have to
> "zero" fill the HDD - use a special program to write "Zero" from first
> track, first sector on the harddisk, so that no info would left). Use a
> large HDD as a "smaller" mis-sized HDD may not only create problem for
later
> change, it also can damage the HDD physically (I've seen it!).
>
> Jun Qian
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "RiverRouge" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 1:02 AM
> Subject: [PCBUILD] New HD installation
>
>
> > Date: Dec 11, 2000
> > Subject: New HD Installation
> > From: William Patton
> >
> > Hello. I am about to purchase a 10gig WD HD. I am wondering about what
> > limitations to be aware of. I have an Asus m/b with HX chipset, bios
> 5/97,
> > 200MMX, win98SE. Someone said there may be a 8gig limit of some sort.
I
> > did not want to use the special software that comes with them. If this
> > limit is a function of the bios and I use it anyways and then later get
a
> > new m/b will that bios recognize the drive differently so that I will
not
> be
> > able to read the drive as it would be with this m/b
>
> PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download
> visit our download web page at:
> http://nospin.com/pc/files.html
PCBUILD maintains hundreds of useful files for download
visit our download web page at:
http://nospin.com/pc/files.html
|
