harddrive replacement

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Gary Wessle

Hi
I have 2 harddrives, both ibm on my system, mobo is abit bx6 rev.2,
ide, both are on one cable.

the primary master capacity is 9GB and I need to get a bigger one.
it has windows and linux.
the second harddrive has linux only. so the system has 3 OSs.

how can I go about this task?

thanks
 
That old motherboard's BIOS most likely cannot recognize a harddrive size
larger than 9 GB. And they do not manufacture harddrives that small
anymore.
 
Gary Wessle said:
I have 2 harddrives, both ibm on my system,
mobo is abit bx6 rev.2, ide, both are on one cable.
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the primary master capacity is 9GB and I need to get a bigger one.
it has windows and linux.
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the second harddrive has linux only. so the system has 3 OSs.
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how can I go about this task?
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That motherboard has a bios update to support drives of 40G and bigger.
Important to update the bios if the current one is older than that.

Once that is done, all you need to do is clone the existing drive
to the new drive using something like True Image. Best to do
that using what TI calls the rescue CD, after booting the CD.
The default is to make the old partitions fill the new drive,
but you can specify the new partition sizes manually too.

Easiest to have both the old and new drives on that one cable,
with the current second drive temporarily removed while you
clone the 9GB drive to the new drive. Then replace the 9GB
drive with the new drive and put the current second hard drive
back on that ribbon cable. It should boot the way it does now
with a lot more space on the new drive.
 
DaveW said:
That old motherboard's BIOS most likely cannot recognize a harddrive size larger than 9 GB.
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That one can.
And they do not manufacture harddrives that small anymore.
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They dont need to, you can short stroke many bigger hard drives.
 
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