----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronn Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 8:15 PM Subject: Re: Irregulars Question on Hard Drives :(
> At 03:02 PM 4/7/02, John D. Giorgis wrote: > >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 > > > Bad news . . . > > That would be a pretty good description of the one I tried to upgrade about > a year or so ago (a 200MHz processor, which was a '97 upgrade from the > original 100MHz 486DX that it came with in '95, but otherwise . . . ). I > had a total of about 6GB on two hard drives, and they were absolutely > packed. So I got an 80GB drive. Upon putting it in, the BIOS would only > recognize it as 8GB, no matter what was tried. > > Are you running the first or second (OEM) version of Win 95? I know for > sure the first version will not support any hard drive partition larger > than 2GB. The second version uses FAT32, and may recognize larger > partitions (anyone know for sure?), but was only made available if you > bought a whole new computer after it was released. This means you will > need to upgrade to Win 98 2E at least, which will cost about another $90 > for the upgrade version. And it's possible your old computer won't allow > you to upgrade-mine wouldn't: on attempt after attempt the upgrade would > run about halfway, then hang. It turned out to be cheaper to look in the > want ads and find a newer (less than one y. o. at the time) machine than to > try to upgrade everything piecemeal. I was lucky enough to be able to > afford it at the time, although money has been tight since . . . > > I have a 166MMX that I upgraded to 98SE.......last night. (Co-inkidink that the subject comes up today) It had an OEM version of 95 on it originally. My mom bought a 1.8Ghz PC last week to replace the PC in question. Pisses me off, that my 63 year old mother has a better PC than me!!!! <G> I'm stuck with a P3 550, a P2 400, and now this 166. I plan to figure out a way to use the 166 as a server forwarded to the net. That way Susan can run a video chatroom and be in it at the same time. (I'm told you cant be on the same machine running the software). xponent Reach Determining My Grasp Maru rob
