[wplug] Installing a new hard drive.
Luquilla Hughes
luquilla at hotmail.com
Wed Feb 21 01:19:41 EST 2001
Hey all I bought a new HD, IBM deskstar model DTLA-307045(46.1GB), at the
computer show weekend before last and have installed it in my Compaq Deskpro
2000 5166 box. (got a good deal on it.) However it seems that the bios is
(A) funky, hey it's compaq, and (B) a bit old.
I had found the compaq support site for my model but have not had a chance
to give it a good going over so the bios may be upgradable, but if we were
to assume for a minute that it ain't, here's my question.
Would there be any adverse effects of letting my bios think that it is not
really the 46 GB drive that it is, but the 7 or 8 GB drive that it wants to
believe that it is?
Other info:
I need to have Windows on this machine, but should fit on the 2.5gb hda
quite nicely, (might even be able to squeeze in os/2).
It has a network card installed, so if I ever scrape up enough to get a box
better than a p166 I can move All of the data off the IBM drive to another
machine, fdisk/reformat, and then move the data back.
There is currently nothing on this box that can't be wiped so I can start
from scratch.
extraneous trivia:
When I say compaqs bios is funky, it is on the hard drive/floppy. they make
a seperate partition, type 12h I believe, and put all of the controls and
system info on it. no partition, no bios access. I had to get the system
info from compaq floppies(which say booting ms-dos, a whole interesting
legal/licensing discussion there).
The case is really nice, three thumb screws to open it.
Thanks for reading this far. But that's about it any suggestions are
appreciated, flames can be fowarded to /dev/null.
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