----- Original Message ----- From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 3:02 PM Subject: Re: Irregulars Question on Hard Drives
> 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). > When you buy the harddrive, get a salesman to help you find a drive that will *fool* your bios into accepting the drive. This can be a bit tricky and doesnt always work to the degree you would like, but it can usually be done. Others may be able to give you better details on this kind of operation. xponent ARRRRGGGHHH Maru rob
