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I having some issues with large hard drives and an older system.
I re-using an older MEW-VM motherboard out of an HP 6553, with a celeron 500MHz. It didn't seem to like the 160GB hard drive I tried to hook up to it. I am wondering if I use partion magic or something along those lines if I can partition the HD off into smaller sections that the motherboard will take to a little better. The motherboard is made by ASUS for HP, so there are no BIOS updates, is it possible to use a different BIOS? The only solution I can come up with is to use a PCI IDE controller card with it's own BIOS, but the MD only has three PCI slots, no on board video,sound, ethernet. So expansion is getting slim. I thinking that this MB is not worth the cost of playing with anymore....
I wouldn't recommend trying a non-HP BIOS.
http://partition.radified.com/partitioning.htm
Asus A7N8X-X
1800+ @ 8.5 x 200MHz
768MB PC3200
Asus A9550 128MB/128-bit
Gamer Edition
WinME/WinXP Pro
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Yeah, updating the BIOS with a version that might have not been made for it will render it usless. HP motherboards are customised so you'll have to find the right version.
You could try Partition Magic but if the computer can't detect full amount of the drive you might have problems.
Buying a IDE card is an option but like you said, you lack PCI slots. IDE cards cost around £10-30 for a cheap one. For that price you get a cheap motherboard instead. But then you'll need to get compatible hardware.
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Drives over 137gb will be unreliable on your system, even if you partition it into smaller drives. Trust me!!!
Your only choice is a PCI card that supports 48 bit LBA.
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Another option to consider would be to put in a USB 2.0 PCI card and put this HDD in a USB 2.0 enclosure. The card and the enclosure would be about $60 though.
If you are running WIN98SE, you would want to use FAT32 and I've read that, though FAT32 max partition is 2 Terabytes, you are taking chances with partitions greater than 120GB. That made me so paranoid that I converted all but one server on my LAN to WINXP and NTFS.
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If the hardware won't support 48 bit LBA, I don't know that XP SP2 ALONE would resolve this problem for pimpinaman.
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I appreciate all the good responces :) Looks like the motherboard upgrade is probably the best bet. time to go search tigerdirect and newegg for some deals :)
Thanks again everyone :)
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Don't forget to check out Fry's Outpost. They frequently run pretty good MOBO/CPU combo deals.
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