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installing 80 gb hard disk

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by pisces_ldh

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I want to install 80 gb samsung hard disk on intel sr440bx motherboard with piii 450 mhz processor. But it detects 80 gb hdd as 65 gb, even i updated the bios from intel site, it still shows capacity of hdd as 65 gb.
can somebody help me in installing 80 gb hard disk

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by thechas

You have a couple of options:

Custom BIOS from a 3rd party vendor such as Unicore software.

Drive overlay program from the drive manufacture.

And my personal recomendation, a PCI ATA100/133 IDE controller card.
The controller card will recognize the full capacity of the new large drive, and give you ATA100/133 transfer speeds for under $30.

Watch your OS.
If you are using Windows 9X, you are best off partitioning the drive into at least 2 drives.
Make the largest partition 62GB or less.

Chas

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