I have an old socket 7 asus mobo for amd K6. I have 768mb of RAM in it and 2 cd burners. When I put in my 60gb hd w/ Win xp installed from a diff pc it says boot error. It wont even detect the 60 gb. But when i put a 10gb in it is shown in the bios...... are there some limitations on this socket 7 / k6 that i am unaware of??? please help.

My guess is that the bios has a 32gb size limit. Do yourself a favor BACKUP! Sorry, I do not check for private messages

Putting a hard drive in a machine that was loaded from a different installation seldom gives good results!

What model ASUS? Most likely the drive is too big for the bios to see. But I think a bios upgrade for the P5A models will see the drive.

Both are frequently right. On your older motherboard you have a BIOS chip which needs to be flashed (like from "esupport.com" if you got money)then the BIOS will recognize from above 10 gig through 300 gig. Next if you clone a harddrive's operating system from a different computer, it's best to have a few drives on hand. So your original can be unaltered and returned to its original computer with the operating system you want to steel. Let's say you got drives "A" ,"B",and"C". "A" is your operating system original, so clone it to "B" then delete all hardware programs that is not in the second computers (if you are doing several) also remove as much other programs in "contol panel" "add/remove programs" icon, as you can. When you have drive "B" down to the bare minimum to function computer"A" clone "B"drive to "C" Drive, and install "C" drive in computer #2. If you get "c" to run in #2, Congratulations, you now have a cloner "B". If it doesn't you have to remove more from "B" but if the hardware differences are to great it may not work in your second computer but will in more simular motherboard and hardware configurations than the difference you might be trying to jump. Crunch

By the way upgrading old computers is a blast. I've flashed alot of BIOS and esupport.com is alot of help, but there has got to be a cheaper way (usually $39.00 as a repeat customer). Just for the heck of it I put 2 120gig HDDs with daul booting operating systems one 2000Pro and the other XP Pro. With the BIOS flash you will gain more options especially handy is the overclocking CPU, BUS speed, and temperature settings. When you boot up hit delete and chose which drive you want to boot from and that's the operating system it will run in, yet all files are availible from either drive. Crunch

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