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Name: fitzy2006 Date: February 5, 2006 at 08:17:42 Pacific OS: windows xp home edition ( CPU/Ram: 224 mb
Comment:
hi i have an old computer from 1997 and a 12.7 gb fujitsu hdd (IDE). I decided to buy a 200gb samsung ATA hdd (IDE) because my old one was full, however i am unnable to partition it or set it up and need help. Is it because my motherboard is too old? it is an intel pentium 3 533mhz processor. I need help, i have never set up a hdd before...:(
Name: jam Date: February 5, 2006 at 08:34:09 Pacific
Reply:
The software to do it should have come with the HDD. If not, check out the Samsung website
Hellz Yea!
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Response Number 2
Name: Mike Newcomb Date: February 5, 2006 at 09:18:10 Pacific
Reply:
Quite possibly your old mb and/or bios cannot handle such a large hdd.
In setup it generally advises the HDD size it 'sees'. If not the max size of hdd, to overcome this, download the drive manager program from the hdd makers website.
As you advise never having done this before, I would suggest having someone who has, look over your shoulder.
You will have to use FAT32 or NTFS. Also give thought asto this size of partitions if you want more than one on the hdd.
Good Luck - Keep us posted.
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Response Number 3
Name: Badboy Date: February 5, 2006 at 20:05:53 Pacific
Reply:
I think what jam is talking about is a drive overlay program.
Other options would be to see if your MOBO has a BIOS upgrade that wold allow it to see larger HDDs (doubtful) or a PCI/IDE adapter card that has a BIOS that allows it to see larger drives.
Do you have the Service Pack 2 update for XP?
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Response Number 4
Name: fitzov Date: February 5, 2006 at 21:41:24 Pacific
Reply:
is it detected properly by BIOS?
when you enter BIOS, there should be an autodetect feature.
also, you are setting this drive up as a slave, right? if so, you will have to change the jumper setting to slave.
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