Re: Support for large HDDs

On Aug 11, 12:45 am, Conor <co...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <bc522b7d-6b9c-47af-a164-0a0ddb670be3
@r38g2000yqn.googlegroups.com>, NT says...

I remember when large drives meant 2G :)

I'm probably going to get a 1.8GHz PC for use as a backup. It comes
with 40G HDD, but I'll want to put a 400G in as well. Is there any
quick way I can determine either definitely whether the BIOS will
handle >128G, or any way to know approximate probability of it doing
so? I'm not going to know the make/model of the mobo in advance of
paying.

Don't worry about it is my advice. Every single manufacturer has drive
overlay software available that allows you to set up and use the full
capacity of a hard drive despite what the BIOS reports. For example,
Maxtor had Maxblast.

As drive overlay software is the thick end of 15 old or more, its very
mature and works very well.

Cheers, for some reason I hadn't thought of that. Would mean
formatitng the drive though, and I dont know what other machines would
think of the overlay software. The HDD will get swapped around.


NT
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