christmascracker Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 Not a problem as such, well not yet anyway , Hubby brought home a PC which my daughter wants. It only had a 4 gig HDD in it so I would like to put in a bigger one, only 40 gig or so.It's not exactly new so am I going to have a problem putting in one of this size? I've tried googling various bits but cant find much.If you need any details just shout :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 Hello CC.Can you tell us how old the machine is, what is the operating system/motherboard/CPU?Most important, does it work at the moment? If not it won't be worth the effort of getting it going again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christmascracker Posted September 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 Hello Pops :) Yes, everything works fine. Nice and clean inside too. in fact, it all looks like new even though it isn't if you know what I mean.Operating system is Windows 98SECPU is Cyrix Cx6x86MX/MII CPU clock 250mhzMotherboard info - motherboard OEM Luckytech Technology ltdBios version Award Modular BIOS v4.51PGChipset vendor VIA technologies IncChipset VT82C597/597AT/598MVP/ApolloVP3I hope that helps a bit :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 Well it looks as though your biggest problem now is locating a new 40 Gg HDD. I wanted one recently and could not find one. But I'm sure someone somewhere will have one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 eBuyer are doing an 80GB Seagate for less than £30 inc VAThttp://www.ebuyer.com/UK/store/2/cat/Hard-DrivesTheres a WD 40GB there as well http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/19256/rb/22108871573 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christmascracker Posted September 30, 2006 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 Thanks both of you :) 80 is fine actually, just wasn't sure if it would take one that size. If it will, then I might as well get her the bigger one :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted September 30, 2006 Report Share Posted September 30, 2006 I know nothing about the motherboard but, if the drive is too big for it, you should be able to partition it into smaller parts (I think) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~Root~ Posted October 1, 2006 Report Share Posted October 1, 2006 with Windows98, it only supports FAT32 so you would be losing 20% of your space to indexing. im not 100% sure about compatibility. i havent messed around with pre-2000 machines in quite some time. but a big red flag is popping up when i think about +25gb.if i were you, i would by a PCI ide raid controller card, then put your 40+gb hard drive on there. better support then the old IDE controller on board. then install windows 2000 sp4, asuming you have atleast 64mb of ram. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christmascracker Posted October 5, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 I've installed a 40 gig HD today, it's not detected in the bios however :( I've put it in mine and it's fine so the actual drive is ok. Maybe I'm missing something, which is quite likely.I've split it into 2 partitions and that made no difference either.If some kind soul could tell me what the exact procedure is after I've actually put the drive in the PC, I would be oh so grateful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted October 5, 2006 Report Share Posted October 5, 2006 Have you got the jumpers and the IDE cable to agree. some where on the drive casing will be a legend telling what the jumper settings should be.Set It tp Master and then connect the outer end connector of the IDE ribbon to the drive. The bios might then oblige...but what do I know.Before you use it it will need partioning and formatting. Tools for this (fdisk and format) will be on your W98 rescue disk. This should boot up from the floppy drive and load everything into a virtual drive that it will create in RAM. Odds on it will label the virtual drive "E". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christmascracker Posted October 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2006 The daft thing blew up over the weekend At least this was before I spent loads on it fortunately :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted October 10, 2006 Report Share Posted October 10, 2006 The daft thing blew up over the weekend At least this was before I spent loads on it fortunately :)A blessing in disguise. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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