Large HD with old MB

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If running Win98 or Win2000 with a very old MB, which only handles no more
than 8g HD, and partition no more than 2g. How to deal with a new large HD
of 20g?

Can an IDE card take care of this problem?
Is there any other means to solve this problem?

TIA
 
¤jº~¥Á±Ú said:
If running Win98 or Win2000 with a very old MB, which only handles no more
than 8g HD, and partition no more than 2g. How to deal with a new large HD
of 20g?
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BIOS upgrade not an option? Most hard drive manufacturers make
something called drive overlay software that you can get from their
websites to get around BIOS size restrictions. I've never used it
myself, though.
Can an IDE card take care of this problem?
Is there any other means to solve this problem?
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Seems like it should be able to :-)
 
Sooky Grumper said:
BIOS upgrade not an option? Most hard drive manufacturers make
something called drive overlay software that you can get from their
websites to get around BIOS size restrictions. I've never used it
myself, though.
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i installed a 20gig drive on a pentium-1 with an 8gig bios limit

i used the EZ Bios overlay software..it worked just fine
 
Can an IDE card take care of this problem?
Is there any other means to solve this problem?
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Yes, most IDE controller cards have a BIOS of their own which
circumvents the mobo's limitations.

I was able to boot off an WD 40gig on an AOpen AP43 486 system
with a Promise Ultra66. I can't imagine your system is older
than that.
 
¤jº~¥Á±Ú said:
If running Win98 or Win2000 with a very old MB, which only
handles no more than 8g HD, and partition no more than 2g.
How to deal with a new large HD of 20g?

Can an IDE card take care of this problem?
Is there any other means to solve this problem?
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I tried a SIIG and some off-brand card but found that they weren't
compatible with all HDs and would either not recognize them or report
their capacities way, way wrong. OTOH the Promise cards haven't let
me down yet, and sometimes they're available cheap on close-out at
Staples, OfficeMax, or Office Depot under the Maxtor brand (same
thing, sometimes cheaper). The older ones support 128GB drives, but
at least the ATA100 and ATA133 cards have BIOS upgrades for them for
48-bit LBA (Maxtor versions appear to have separate upgrades, but my
Maxtor ATA100 didn't work with it and required Promise's). Also the
Windows driver (separate download) adds 48-bit LBA support even to
Windows 95/98x/ME>
 
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