Hey everyone, sorry for posting another question : \ I am going to buy a new hard drive for my computer tomorrow because my current one has had a few troubles and I think it may die in a couple of months. But I dont want to throw it yet. I am going to put it in my P1 machine that I use for music and internet. I keep this machine in a cupboard that dosent really have any ventalation at all which I thaught was fine because it dosent make much heat anyways. But today I replaced the power supply with a quieter one just after it had been on playing music for a couple of hours and the heat was incredible! I am worried that if I put my 80Gb HDD in it it will die very quickly because of the heat. The hard drive enclosure is a bad design for heat with basically no airflow. I have tidyed the cables now and I will try find somewhere else to mount it like in a 5.25 bay. So if I put this HDD in this old system will it kill it? Or will the hard drive die of its current illness first? Mattwizz3 : ) Sempron 2600+ OC 2.2GHz 1Gb DDR400 Dual Channel 2X 80Gb 7200Rpm nVIDIA FX5500 128Mb The Devil '64bit' Damn Microsoft... DIE STEAM DIE!

P1 will not recognize 80GB HDD without Overlay Software. As it is in a cupboard leave the case off....

Cool, I did update its bios to the latest available version from May 1998 so it accepts drives up to 32Gb. If i cant get the overlay going I will be happy with 30Gb anyways, If it can hold Windows 100Mb of apps and my 12Gb of music I will be happy, its better than its current 3.25Gb anyways : P Thanks for the fast response. Mattwizz3 : ) Sempron 2600+ OC 2.2GHz 1Gb DDR400 Dual Channel 2X 80Gb 7200Rpm nVIDIA FX5500 128Mb The Devil '64bit' Damn Microsoft... DIE STEAM DIE!

I suggest that you iinstall a fan to ventilate that closet. Electronics do not do well in high heat.

Here is a site with BIOS patched for up to 128 gigabyte hard drives for many older motherboards, including many Pentium MMX era Socket Seven motherboards. And the best part is, they are free! Wim's BIOS

Thanks repo man, I have a GA-586AT motherboard and there is only bioses for GA-586ATX and ATE motherboards dang. I baught a 200GB SATA hard drive with NCQ and used MAX Blast 4 to copy windows XP over to it and make it bootable and it worked fine and all my programs were working (Except Firefox) I re booted and "Click Whirr" and it turns out that my other drive was failing! Its funny because I use that drive to back up on : P I'm gonna copy all my data from it to my Old C:\ drive. Oh and by the way, MAX Blast 4 formatted my new drive as a FAT32 Drive, how do i get it to NTFS so I can have Files larger than 4Gb. Thanks guys Mattwizz3 : ) Sempron 2600+ OC 2.2GHz 1Gb DDR400 Dual Channel 2X 80Gb 7200Rpm nVIDIA FX5500 128Mb The Devil '64bit' Damn Microsoft... DIE STEAM DIE!

OK ive got everything sorted on my main computer now, its on NTFS now. I will put the hard drive in the P1 tommrow. I will let you know how it turns out. Mattwizz3 Sempron 2600+ OC 2.2GHz 1Gb DDR400 Dual Channel 2X 80Gb 7200Rpm nVIDIA FX5500 128Mb The Devil '64bit' Damn Microsoft... DIE STEAM DIE!