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New hard drive problems in OLD Pentium 3 system

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travsav

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Cousin is a poor boy, and got a 300gb samsung ide hard drive for cheap...

He has a, PIII 666mhz PC with a 20gb harddrive... he tried installing the 300gb and couldn't get it to work, so he came to me.

I installed it, made sure both drives were set to cable select, had the 300 as master, and the 20gb as slave...

Turned it on, went into the bios, it detected both drives... so I restarted again, threw in the XP cd... pressed a button to boot from CD, it said it was analyzing my pc... the screen went blank, and stayed that way...

shut it off.. pulled the power from the 300gb drive, and turned it back on... this time it went into setup right away...
 
A P3 computer generally will not see drives above 40 gig without a bios update. If it happens that there is a bios update for whatever he has, now you run into possible hardware limitations related to 48 bit addressing for hard drives, which would limit the drive size to something just over 120 gig.

A pci 133 ATA card would get around this, as it would have a 48 bit controller, and is not bios dependent.

You can also use drive overlays to get the drive recognized by Windows, and some drives have jumper settings to limit the drive size, but in the end a smaller drive or a new computer may part of a solution.
 
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