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Pc problem - My Pentium 1 PC aint taking my 80gib harddrive


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Back when those CPU's were common , most system BIOS could not recognize partitions larger then 2.1GB due to the way the standard FAT partition worked. Most harddrive manufacturers were including a disk with a set of tools that allowed a secondary loader to enabled their use when drives started to become larger (my first 6.4GB was absolutely ENORMOUS lol).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

One of the most common of these tools disks was "Data Lifegaurd Tools" by Western Digital, but as I recall , Maxtor and others all had their own variation.

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You can also sometimes get a jumper on the drive that limits it to being a certain size. Perhaps that would be of help? I don't know if it would provide for a limit that low though.

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My Pentium 1 PC aint taking my 80gib harddrive

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.............. pentium 1..... -.- no wonder why ur computer dont take that many hard drive.. just buy a new computer man.. its only like few hundred bucks... instend of using pentium 1 computer......

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at least a pentium 3....im surprised that people still using pentium 1.. i thought they died out for few years already, plus many software dont support pentium 1. and i think it should b an old computer. so, in this case, buy a new computer would b good. it don't ahve to be too good, like $300 would b fine. at least it..works... :-w

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Are you simple? If he could just go out and buy another machine then he wouldn't be here trying to troubleshoot a problem with a pentium 1.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

nah my mind work just fine. well... its a fact that nearly no software or hardware support pentium 1. this problem cant b solved until he get a better 1. im not trying to say non sence here. its a fact! unless u can think of someway make it works... plus.. a pentium 3 really isnt that expensive..

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plus.. a pentium 3 really isnt that expensive..
Its not quite that simple a solution. A P3 chip is highly unlikely to fit into the socket on his motherboard

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Try the site for whatever make the drive is, for info on:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Capacity limit options

 

 

 

2. DDO Overlay to run a larger drive

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check BIOS option for LBA support (usually preferable) or "large" - with those, an overlay should not be needed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anything from Win95B (OSR2 release) can realistically run a large drive (using FAT32) - previous versions had the FAT limit of 2GB per partition, although larger drives could be used.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The era was also notorious for assorted capacity limits starting with the old IDE/CHS sizing lowest common denominator, limiting tracks to 1023, heads to 16 and sectors to 63 (the old 528MB limit), followed by various other limits of 2GB, 8GB, 32GB (the most common one for a "capacity limit" selection).

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if it has a pci slit free you can get a HD addon card which would allow you to put the drive on and the system would see the card, the card tells it about the drive and interprets proeprly..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

this should work and only cost like $20-$40

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