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Old Nov 10, 2003, 04:24 AM   #1
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Ok i have an old PC and it is a 166MMZ Pentium, i wanted to upgrade the HDD to a 40 gig IBM Deskstar, but for the love me the PC wont detect it, or a 60 gig that im running on my machince now. You think its told old to run that large hdd? I dont remember much about old hardware lol.
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Old Nov 10, 2003, 05:23 AM   #2
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Ok i have an old PC and it is a 166MMZ Pentium, i wanted to upgrade the HDD to a 40 gig IBM Deskstar, but for the love me the PC wont detect it, or a 60 gig that im running on my machince now. You think its told old to run that large hdd? I dont remember much about old hardware lol.
I believe the only way you'd have a chance is to use the HD's install disk and let it install the overlay. Even then, it might not work, but, I'd give it a go.
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Old Nov 10, 2003, 06:24 AM   #3
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Ok i have an old PC and it is a 166MMZ Pentium, i wanted to upgrade the HDD to a 40 gig IBM Deskstar, but for the love me the PC wont detect it, or a 60 gig that im running on my machince now. You think its told old to run that large hdd? I dont remember much about old hardware lol.
Well i had the similar problem with my old pc P3 450 with a WD 40 Gig HD and the bios couldnt detect the dam thing.
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it's a bios thing that probably won't allow over amount of gig.

i had a p3 450 from Packard bell a few years ago with a 7g hdd wanted to upgrade to a 40 gig hdd but took it in store to have all filed=s transfered over.but would not recognise the 40g but did recognise a 30g ok so stuck with that.

so i'd say its a bios lock.
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it's a bios thing that probably won't allow over amount of gig.

i had a p3 450 from Packard bell a few years ago with a 7g hdd wanted to upgrade to a 40 gig hdd but took it in store to have all filed=s transfered over.but would not recognise the 40g but did recognise a 30g ok so stuck with that.

so i'd say its a bios lock.

Same here, i think its a bios limitation, dont know if a bios update will fix it, doubt it.
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I don't think hardware that old could possibly understand a HDD that big.
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....i thought it was 13.5gb that some of the 166 era pc could recognize.... the newer p2 450 era is were 30ish gb was the limit.....
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BTW, you have XP Pro around? try it.... as it might attempt to see it all.....
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BTW, you have XP Pro around? try it.... as it might attempt to see it all.....
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Those day's 2 gb was norm, maybe if you make 5 partition of less than 8 gb maybe that i'll work
but think it is limited to 32gb or even 16 or 8gb
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Has same problem on my gf 450MHz, it would only detect 30GB, after bois upgrade it detected the full 40GB...
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well...i know this sounds strange..but i attempted to install a 40 gb HD into this 90mhz machine i had.... it only saw 13gb.... (old machine..compaq)...... but after starting up the installation of windows xp Pro.... it saw the full 40gb...... at this point.... i'm like "wtf? " .....also, windows XP pro see a 166mhz MMX intel cpu.... the computer only sees a 100mhz 486SX (is this right? ).....
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BTW, i think XP pro will use a software solution that will let it see what is possibly seeable.... .... i'm not sure though...
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bios updated no go, i think its just to big,
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