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Max supported HD
Name: Smith John Date: January 4, 2004 at 10:45:40 Pacific OS: will put W98SE CPU/Ram: 486 100Mhz/32Mb
Comment:
How could I find out the maximum HD size that my 486 supports?
Name: Bob (by BigBob) Date: January 4, 2004 at 11:50:02 Pacific
Reply:
I believe it will only handel about a 540mb h/d
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Response Number 2
Name: Bob (by BigBob) Date: January 4, 2004 at 11:51:34 Pacific
Reply:
If you go to the website of the comp, see if it will tell you there,or post on the 3.1 forum
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Response Number 3
Name: egkenny Date: January 4, 2004 at 15:06:28 Pacific
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1) If your motherboard supports LBA then enabling that should increase the max size of your hard drive.
2) A BIOS update for your motherboard. This will sometimes increase the HD capacity some.
3) Software drivers such as Maxtor's Maxblast can be used to overcome BIOS size limitations for hard drives
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Response Number 4
Name: jam Date: January 4, 2004 at 15:09:56 Pacific
Reply:
Or use an overlay program & install as big a HDD as you need...
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Response Number 5
Name: Smith John Date: January 4, 2004 at 16:35:11 Pacific
Reply:
Thank you all for your responses.
First, I already have an 850Mb HD which recently failed, and I want to replace it with as large a HD as I can. Also, I'm a novice in computers and I'm not sure what LBA and overlay programs are. Since the computer is a clone, I don't have the benefit of checking a manufacturer's website; so perhaps it would be best to start by identifying the motherboard and BIOS, but of course this is just my guess. How could I identify these? Is there a way to find the maximum supported HD size from the BIOS?
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