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What size hard drive is in the Compaq now. &nbsp;If its over 510 meg and the system is not using any special drive partitioning software you should not have a problem with your 10 gig drive.You might wanna consider how you wanna partition it tho.. &nbsp;Good Luck and hope this answers your question.
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What size hard drive is in the Compaq now.  If its over 510 meg and the system is not using any special drive partitioning software you should not have a problem with your 10 gig drive.You might wanna consider how you wanna partition it tho..  Good Luck and hope this answers your question.

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Greetings:<br />
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I was recently told that Windows 98 will handle large Hard Drives, providing the BIOS can handle it, or if the BIOS can be upgraded to handle the large Hard Drives.<br />
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I would like to know how to find out if a BIOS will handle a certain size HDD without actually trying to install said large HDD? &nbsp;(Specifically, I am speaking of a 10.5 Gb HDD and the computer is a Compaq that has already been set up with a new HDD, new O/S software, etc. )<br />
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Karl<br />

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Greetings:

I was recently told that Windows 98 will handle large Hard Drives, providing the BIOS can handle it, or if the BIOS can be upgraded to handle the large Hard Drives.

I would like to know how to find out if a BIOS will handle a certain size HDD without actually trying to install said large HDD?  (Specifically, I am speaking of a 10.5 Gb HDD and the computer is a Compaq that has already been set up with a new HDD, new O/S software, etc. )

Karl


BIOS and large HDDs?

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