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What size hard drive can I probably put in my 486 DX4-100?

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Sukhoi

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I picked up a 486 DX4-100 for $15, and it has a 600 MB HDD attached to a VLB HDD controller card. For a while I just ran Win95A on it and I was fine with the size, but now I'm fast running out of room since I've decided to dualboot with NT Workstation 4.0. I do have an extra 1.6 GB HDD that I can stick in there.

My question is, should it work? What are the HDD size problems? If I remember right the two main ones are 528 MB and 2.1 GB. So if I already have a 600 MB HDD in there, the 528 MB problem shouldn't apply to me, right? And I shouldn't have a 2.1 GB problem either, since the HDD I want to put in is only 1.6 GB. Thanks!
 
It depends on how new the BIOS is, I guess.

If the BIOS is too old to read the size of the drive, you can get a drive overlay program like Western Digital EZ-BIOS.
 
Yeah, actually the 1.6 GB drive is a Western Digital, so I can use EZ-DRIVE on it. 🙂 I guess it sounds like it will work, with the worst case scenario being that I have to use EZ-DRIVE. Thanks for the help. 🙂
 
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