Re: Maximum Hard Drive Size on older Motherboard ?

John Rhome <rhome@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Can I buy a new 500GB or 750GB ATA-100 HD and use the full drive
even if the motherboard bios is probably limited to 120 gb (this is what I've
read)?

You probably need to flash the bios to support bigger drives, or install an IDE
controller card that supports big hard drives.

I had this issue on some of my machines. On one, I managed to find a hacked
bios, and upgraded the machine for large disk support. On another, I could not
find a bios image, so I installed an IDE controller card, and disabled the
onboard IDE controller support within the BIOS setup. The machine now
supports big drives.

Mark.

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