OT: need help to get a 40gb harddrive to boot on pentium150 mhz

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hi, can anyone help my brother, he will not part with his old pentium pc,
anyway the problem is he has just bought a new WesternDigital IDE harddrive,i
formated the drive and installed winME on the drive using my pc, it works fine
with my pc but the drive will not boot with the pentium150,i have tried every
jumper setting so i assume it is the 8 gig limit of the old motherboard, i
even tried to cheat by formating the drive as a 8gig drive but it did not work,
please help.
 
CHarneyCHRIS said:
hi, can anyone help my brother, he will not part with his old pentium pc,
anyway the problem is he has just bought a new WesternDigital IDE harddrive,i
formated the drive and installed winME on the drive using my pc, it works fine
with my pc but the drive will not boot with the pentium150,i have tried every
jumper setting so i assume it is the 8 gig limit of the old motherboard, i
even tried to cheat by formating the drive as a 8gig drive but it did not work,
please help.
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You need a BIOS upgrade from the motherboard manufacturer, if available.
Good luck!
 
You need a BIOS upgrade from the motherboard manufacturer, if available.
Good luck!
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or1) EZdrive from Ontzrack or a similar product from the manufacturer
of the HDD
2) a HDD-controllercard with its own bios

this should work better, than a bios-upgrade.
Jörg

JV
 
I had this problem once with a large drive on an old system and had to set
the hard drive predelay in the bios to a 3 or 4 seconds. Your bios may be
trying to initialize the drive before it finishes spinning up. HTH.
Louis
 
CHarneyCHRIS said:
hi, can anyone help my brother, he will not part with his old
pentium pc, anyway the problem is he has just bought a new
WesternDigital IDE harddrive,i formated the drive and installed
winME on the drive using my pc, it works fine with my pc but the
drive will not boot with the pentium150,i have tried every
jumper setting so i assume it is the 8 gig limit of the old
motherboard, i even tried to cheat by formating the drive as a
8gig drive but it did not work, please help.
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Mr. Slow said:
You need a BIOS upgrade from the motherboard manufacturer, if available.
Good luck!
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Yes, and read the instructions very good, because I screwed up a
motherboard once while flashing the bios.
 
CHarneyCHRIS said:
hi, can anyone help my brother, he will not part with his old pentium pc,
anyway the problem is he has just bought a new WesternDigital IDE harddrive,i
formated the drive and installed winME on the drive using my pc, it works fine
with my pc but the drive will not boot with the pentium150,i have tried every
jumper setting so i assume it is the 8 gig limit of the old motherboard, i
even tried to cheat by formating the drive as a 8gig drive but it did not work,
please help.
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WesternDigital has a free download called Data Lifeguard Tools made just for
this reason!
you can get it at their site here http://support.wdc.com/download/
 
CHarneyCHRIS said:
........................... it works fine with my pc but the
Boomer wrote
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And when you get the bios to operate the new drive (or whatever
the problem is) install disc wizard (seagate / ontrack) so that
the bios recognises the drive (mine is a P166 with 20 gb HDD)
 
hi,thanks for the advice, i went to W-D website and downloaded free lifeguard
software, i installed a app called ezy bios which tricks bios into thinking the
drive is a 8.4 gigabyte drive.
 
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