harddisk

I believe that the answer to your question is plain and simply YES!! it will take that hard disk.

That is providing the hard disk is in full functional order and that your operating system is configured to handle it.

Griffon.

FYI, you don't configure the operating system to see the hard disk, you configure the hard disk so the operating system can see it. This requires FDISK and FORMAT commands to be run on the disk.

as far as the Bios you shouldn't have a problem. When yo install the drive go to Bios and if you have auto detect use it and see if it comes up correctly. I have a 7 year old P150 and the bios can see up to 8.4GB.

"can see up to 8.4GB." That's not 40 GB.

I had an pentium 3 system which had problems with some 10 GB or larger drives.

Do you have some information about the motherboard, bios etc.

didn't notice the little o!

40GB you may need to upgrade your bios as RID mentions above. The other option is to go to the HD manufacturers website and check for a disk utitlity. Example MAxtor has MAX BLAST. WD has Lifeguard tools. THese utilities allow older machines to use large drives

places a little footnote in reply to the person that said you dont need to configure the os to accept the drive.

Any software required to be able to run the large drive or even information stored on the drive to allow its large size to be accessable is essentially part of the operating system.

Anything and i repeat anything that is required to run a hard disk that is software related is essentially part of the operating system.

Even bios is essentially part of the computers operating system as it stores the computer device information and the computer will not function without it.

While I fully understand that most people look upon the operating system as the mighty windows (coughs) that was not really what I was getting at.

Griffon

Ps. Anyway I still stand by my simple YES!!! answer if you find that you cant I will be very surprised. Best way to find out is to try it but it worked on my pentium 120mhz
so you should not have any worries.

Oh it will probably WORK, but if any M$ O/S will be able to access all 40G if it isn't recognized in BIOS, is another question. Fdisk will only see what is recognized in BIOS...

Regards
/RID

Here is what MS has to say.

The Four Steps Needed to Make a Hard Disk Usable format  fdisk preparation of new drive
       http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q66/7/06.ASP  partitioning
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q154997  Fat 32 etc explanations

I hope this helps !

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I have an old 233 mmx, FIC mobo, bios circa 1997 and it will NOT recognize a 40 gb, had to set the limit on the HD (jumper to 37 gb)

Griffon, I can agree with you in part, but I hate to shoot some holes in your theory about the operating system. I can fdisk and format a drive as the FAT file system and it can be recognized by ALL Windows versions, Novell, Linux and even MAC OS. So with that in mind, you must remember that FDISK and FORMAT are tools that allow you to configure a disk for use under an operating system, but they don't have to be part of that operating system.

Oh, by the way, an AS400 does not have a true bios as when it starts, it only loads the interactive manager so that the operating system can take over and perform all the functions that a true bios would and it is a computer.

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