PII motherboard may well be limited to 8.5Gb, - check the manufacturers web
site for the specification of the board
'Ontrack'? software used to market software that did that - it's been used
on some of the 10Gb drives I have to 'manage' for some users
The software I had was specialised for each drive manufacturer, so there may
be a generic version

JimB.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gaffer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: Old HD


> Hi Stephen,
>
> On Sunday 19 June 2005 3:37 pm, you wrote:
>
> > My last/curious question related to a friend's older PII system I
> > was trying to fix by installing a new 40GB drive which seems too
> > large and/or too new.
>
> Is there not a jumper on the drive to limit the size to 32b ??
>
> -- 
> Best Regards:
> Derrick.
> Pontefract Linux Users Group.
>
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