interesting HD info

[lbjgh]

I have an old p133 for my kids and the original 1.6g HD died. I installed an IBM 30g Deskstar drive I had laying around but the old bios only recognized 8g. I figured 8g was better than nothing...

During install of win2000 I was able to format and install win2000 on the previously unrecognized HD space.

After install I had access to all 30g even though the bios only recognized 8g.

cool. :)

[Ken_ver_1_5]

thats interesting normally doesn't work that way.
I would be careful if you plan on using partitioning
software. it may cause problems.

[Cat person]

Most Linux distros recognize those larger drives on older machines too.

[AMD]

Windows 2000 on a P133Mhz? Must be slow - I would never put anything newer than 98 on a system like that.

[networkguy]

You probably need drive overlay software, bios's that old simply cannot recognize a drive of that size. Google drive overlay software, you can probably even get it from your HD's manufacturers website.

NG

[glitch]

You probably need drive overlay software, bios's that old simply cannot recognize a drive of that size. Google drive overlay software, you can probably even get it from your HD's manufacturers website.

NG

Did you even read the his post?:bby:

[Limey32]

LOL. Funny eh? He just finished saying it worked, and yet. ;)



Did you even read the his post?:bby:

[Cat person]

Forums are full of people who never read all of the post but occasionally some people just miss the main point.