P
philo
Flightless Bird
I do a lot of work on older machines.
I've found that if I need to add a larger 2nd drive to a machine that
has a 137 Gig Bios limit...
all I need to do is *disable* that drive in the bios and let the
operating system detect the drive.
I've been doing that for years and have never had the slightest problem.
Well, now I've worked on a machine where I am simply replacing two
smaller drives with one larger one the ...and I used a 160gig
drive...but the bios only detected it as 137gigs (and no, there is no
bios update )
I went to install XP-sp3 and the installer recognized the entire drive.
XP installed and works fine
I'll be darned
I've found that if I need to add a larger 2nd drive to a machine that
has a 137 Gig Bios limit...
all I need to do is *disable* that drive in the bios and let the
operating system detect the drive.
I've been doing that for years and have never had the slightest problem.
Well, now I've worked on a machine where I am simply replacing two
smaller drives with one larger one the ...and I used a 160gig
drive...but the bios only detected it as 137gigs (and no, there is no
bios update )
I went to install XP-sp3 and the installer recognized the entire drive.
XP installed and works fine
I'll be darned