I am upgrading the hard drive in a 5 year old Dell running Win95. Will it take a 40 gig IBM drive?

[Wirehead]

I am upgrading the hard drive in a 5 year old Dell running Win95. Will it take a 40 gig IBM drive? The hard drive I am proposing to use is a EIDE 40.0GB Deskstar 120GXP 40GB ATA/100 7200RPM Hard Drive, model IC35L040AVVN07 part# 07N8450 bare drive. The hard drive that I am replacing is 2 gigs. I know how to get the BIOS to recognize drives over 8.5 gigs. Will this drive work in that machine?

 

[KillerCow]

Unlikely.
I doubt that it will take anything larger than a 32 gig drive... I'm surprised that it can go above 8 gigs when it shipped with a 2.
I have a 3 or 4 year old Houston board that will take a WD 10 and Fuji 20ish drives, but it won't run with a WD 40.

You could try to use DDO, but I never trust those things.
If you have the drive already, stick it in and see how it goes -- but I wouldn't run out and buy the drive if you can't return it.

 

[Paulson]

Probably your best bet for running w/out problems would be an ATA/100 controller card from promise or someone else who makes them...

That's what I use for older pc's...

 

[Trashman]

i agree with Paulson...i avoided same issuses myself with an older Gateway, and used a controller card.

 

[Wirehead]

Thanks for all your replies. So if I can reiterate what you guys are saying is that if I bought a controller card from Promise and bought that 40 gig hard drive then everything would work. Are 100/ATA controller cards made for both PCI and ISA slots? I usually use EZ-Drive to image the drive information from the old to the new. EZ-Drive also ensure that drives above 8.5 gigs can be read by the BIOS.