upgrade to bigger hard drive on Pentium II MMX machine

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Jason

I have tried to upgrade my computer from 3Gb to 40Gb on an older
Pentium II MMX machine. I have tried the different pin configs on the
new hard drive but non seems to work. In spite of this I did get as
far as formating the hard drive then I chickened out when partitioning
questions were asked. Although I got this far the bios was still
saying "none" for the primary master. Some people have said to upgrade
the bios. I have sent into a computer repairer they don't seem to know
what is going on. What are mu options? If thay cannot get it to
recognise the hard drive can I ask for a mother board upgrade or can I
install a HDD controller or am I throwing good money after bad. The
computer is used by my two young children for alphbet games and mostly
word processing running windows 2000.

Any comment would be appreciated.

Jason
 
Jason,
a bios update or controller card would give you the best perfomance .
you could also use disk drive overlay software available from the
drive manufacturer . my western digital drive came with a program
called data lifeguard for windows . i used it to intall the ddo
software and copy the contents of my old drive to the new . the other
hdd makers have similar programs available for download .
hope this helps,
terry

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