At 04:13 PM 4/6/02 -0600 Ronn Blankenship wrote:
> From the voice of experience:  before you get a new, larger hard drive, 
>make sure your OS, BIOS, etc., will be able to work with a hard drive of 
>that capacity.  If they are old, it's possible that, for example, you will 
>be able to put a 100GB hard drive in the computer but the software will 
>only recognize it as 10GB or less.  How old is your motherboard and what 
>type of CPU, BIOS, etc., do you have?  You may get a good deal on a 
>large-capacity hard drive only to find that you will have to essentially 
>get a new computer before it will work . . .

Thanks for the tip.

I'm running a Pentium 166Mhz, Win95.   I'll have to reboot I guess to find
out my BIOS type.    But the whole thing is circa 95-97 (depending on the
part).   

JDG
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