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Big disks for Win 98 SE
I have some PCs running 98SE and NT4.
Is it OK to add a 40Gb disk as the slave of the existing master 4Gb disk already in that machine? I want to know for both OSes. Many thanks. |
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Big disks for Win 98 SE
Not a problem with W98 (we don't do NT here)--the BIOS may not be up to the
task however. If that is the case, you can use drive overlay software available from the drive maker or perhaps a BIOS update (which is not to be taken lightly). -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo wrote in message ... I have some PCs running 98SE and NT4. Is it OK to add a 40Gb disk as the slave of the existing master 4Gb disk already in that machine? I want to know for both OSes. Many thanks. |
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Big disks for Win 98 SE
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I have some PCs running 98SE and NT4. Is it OK to add a 40Gb disk as the slave of the existing master 4Gb disk already in that machine? I want to know for both OSes. Many thanks. There can be problems in a master/slave configuration if the two drives have manufacturing dates that are several years apart. This is more likely to occur when the drives are also from different manufacturers. It doesn't always happen, but it can. If it does then a safe work-around is usually to configure and connect the second hard drive as the master drive on the secondary IDE channel and also reconfigure the CDROM/CDRW/DVD drive(s) as slave drives on either the primary or secondary IDE channel (or both if there are two of these devices). Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
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