The BIOS is going to be the main limitation here. Some BIOSs from this age may accept disks larger than 32 GB, and some may not. You should obtain the latest BIOS update, and possibly the history listings for it before installing a hard drive larger than 32 GB.
--- In [email protected], "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi: > > I am considering upgrading har drives in a couple of older desktops. > One is a emachines 466 Mhz with a Celron processor and the other is a > Dell with a Pentium 2 processor. My question is, will these machines > support the larger drives of a 60 or 80 Gigabyte capacity? Is there > anything in the motherboard, controller, or anything else that would > prevent these larger drives from functioning in these older machines? > The emachines for instance came with a 4.3 Gigabyte hard drive when it > was brand new. As you can see there is quite a difference and I wonder > if the larger drives will work. > > John If you have any questions or problems with any aspect of this site, please feel free to contact me directly [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please do not post personal issues directly to the group. To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for using A-1 Computer Tech Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A-1-Computer_Tech/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
