Posted: 7/2/2005 11:25:36 AM EDT
I am trying to install an 80 gig hard drive as a secondary drive on an old system running windows 98se. When I try to partition it, it only shows up as 32 gig. I have the latest bios for the motherboard, any ideas from the computer experts out there.
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This might put you on the right track. Gotta go... going to SAM's club. |
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There are a number of older motherboards that simply won't address "larger" hard drives. That functionality started showing up around '98 or '99. For a number of them, you can use a PCI-based controller card to get around that. Maxtor also had a freaky software workaround that worked...kind of. However there are mobo's that won't see the full 80GB. |
No it was an OEM drive and came just by itself.
The latest bios update for the motherboard (Abit BX6-2) said that it will support drives over 40 gig but they did not know who big it would support since 40 gig was the biggest at the time the update was made. Even if the bios doesn't recognize the full 80 gig it still should see over 40 gigs. |
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