Wolfgang :
The ability of your computer to handle a hard drive
size depends upon your BIOS and its manufacturing date.
If you supply that information, someone on this list should
be able to tell you the size hard drive that it will work with.
Some makers of hard drives supply a program that will
permit a BIOS that is limited to 2 Gb size to work with
a large hard drive by partitioning it into 2 Gb partitions.
I have a 133 Mb pentium, a 10/10/94 BIOS (2 Gb limitation)
and a 40 GB Western Digital Hard Drive
(18- 2 Gb partitions) working well together.
Go to the web site of the maker of your hard drive to
see what solution they offer you.
Wally
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 13:49:07 +0200 "Wolfgang Rohloff \(WH\)"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi Everyone
>
>
> I have a question to ask about Hard Drives. Can I put a 40Gig h/d
> into
> a Pentium 3 PC or does it not work. I have been given a 40G drive by
> a
> friend who upgraded his P4 with a 120G drive. When I put it into my
> pc
> and try to Boot up I get an "IO Error " message. Does any one have
> any
> answers for me.
>
> Also When I try to put a 7,5G drive into my P1 I get the same sort
> of
> error there. What is the maximum size drive a P1 can take???
>
> Reagrds
> Wolfgang Rohloff
> Cape Town,SA
>
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