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what is the largest harddrive I can upgrade to  on my hp pavillion 7050
100 mhz pentium ?
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Its according to your Bios age and the operating system.

If your Bios is an older version (since your box is 100mhz) I would say it won't support HD larger than 8.4MB

If your operating system is Win98 no problem
If your using early edition of WIn95 you will have to partition the drive because it only see up to 2.1
95 b and c will see it all.

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If you need a large drive, you could convert to scsi, but the cost is high (an upgraded system with large UDMA drive might be cheaper)
Another way :

You can download a little utility to bypass bios. With this utility no bios limitation. Only OS limitation ...

You can download utility on Disk manufacturer sites
( www.seagate.com, www.quantum.com etc ...)

Example : Quantum
http://www.quantum.com/support/csr/software/csr_software.htm
->Ontrack Disk Manager® DiskGo! version 2.50


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