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Hi all!

I would like 2 know if it is posible 2 use this hard disk (40 Gb, 8,9 ms, 7200 RPM, 2 Mb cache, Ultra ATA-100 BARRACUDA IV - ST340016A ), along whit my old operating system (wi***b)?

Regards and ty 4 your answers!

An OS has no real preference over a HD, you just have to make sure the bios reads it! If not, you may have the boot sectors wrong, for example: set as ntfs instead of fat32... that would then require a format to wipe the boot sectors.

Im pretty sure 95 doesnt operate on ntfs... only win2k and XP

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If you have an old system, your bios might not want to see the whole HD.
E.G. I Once put a 30 GB hard drive in an old P 133 system, and the bios would only see 16 GB :D
Anyways, it still was a great improvement, becouse the old HD was only 4 GB

Hmmm. then you bios was not set right!

Well, I tried all possibilities, But when asked in the shop where I bought the HD, they sugested A bios flash would be a good solution, becouse the version that was on wasn't capable of seeing more than 16 GB they thought.
But I never flashed the old thing, It wasn't my own computer you see and flashing a bios CAN be dangerous.

visit the site of your Bios provider and download the latest version! That should sort you out....

Respect,

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ty 4 your answer, very helpfull!