hdd question

[jwagner166]

my friend has an older compac prassario modle 5340
it has windows 98 first eddition
he has only a 3 gig hard drive and wants to put a new one in
what hard drive would be compatible with his system
i thought anything under a 30 gig running fat 32 would be fine
but for some reason when he has asked people in the stores the tell him
there are none compatible with 98 first eddition i know this is not true
so any help woul be great thank you

 

[The_Other_One]

"While the FAT32 file system can support drives up to a standard theoretical size of 2 terabytes, (it 'can' be jury-rigged under Windows Millennium Edition to support partitions of up to 8 TB), Windows 2000 Professional and XP Professional cannot FORMAT a volume larger than 32 GB in size using their native FAT32 file system.

Interesting... But yeah, I know I had at least a 30G in my old emachines and I was still running 98. I got a 40G at some point, but I can't recall if I'd upgraded to 2000 or still had 98 on it. Either way, it seems very possible to have at 30G.

Even if you can't get it to work at it's full size, I'm quite sure you could split it up into partitions and make it work.

 

[jwagner166]

usb

will it matter if he gets a usb he has usb 2.0

 

[The_Other_One]

A USB drive? Err... I wouldn't with 98. Even 98SE had some problems with USB1.1.

 

[jwagner166]

could you recomend a older 30 gig or less

 

[Bobo]

I'll sell you a 5GB drive...

 

[dark_legacy2006]

i got a 6.7 gb

 

[jwagner166]

would this work
http://www.pcpartsohio.com/BookDetail.aspx?item_id=50

 

[StrangleHold]

could you recomend a older 30 gig or less

These are 40
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...307798&Subcategory=14&description=&srchInDesc=

 

[The_Other_One]

Oh, and don't try and replace the primary harddrive. Older compaqs have a portion of the bios on the drive, so you'll have to set whatever drive you do get as a slave.

 

[SirKenin]

Get a PCI controller card in that puppy and you can put any size HDD you want in there. The only deal will be is that you will have to partition it because there is a limit on the size of the partition that Windows 98 will be able to work with.