[quote:1237660fd8][i:1237660fd8]Originally posted by adams_73533 [/i:1237660fd8]
[b]a little off the topic but let me see if i understand this correctly.

the promise card will take care of the bios limitation? because i have a 40gb and my bios won't support over 33gb. [/quote:1237660fd8]

which mainboard are you using? and which bios version?

Hi Nichotin, I suspect this is an issue with most all MOBO's that are currently out there. Only the "Newest" Boards would have support for something like 160 GB or more...:(

Buy a smaller one or none at all and wait for the bios to catch up. or use 2 hard drives if you have the open IDE channels, get 2 120gb ones for example, 1 problem solved, 2 more space.

When i have Buy my 60gig Mator, they give my a floppy drive with a utility to format and partitionning the drive!!



after that !! my 60 gig was reading by MS XP


the only one thing i can say .. go on the web site of MAxtor and check for this floppy [b:5721b75fa9]max blast[/b:5721b75fa9], but u need to find the right one for ur Hdd !!!

I would not recommend using max blast. It's drive overlay software. Drive overlay software fakes your computer's BIOS into thinking a smaller drive is there than is actually there. It works well in theory, but they cause more problems than they're worth normally. When they work, they're alright, but if you have a problem, you can't take your drive out and plug it into another machine and read the files. You can only access the hard drive if you boot from it (or if it's a secondary drive, you can only access it if you boot from your primary drive, which is the one with the drive overlay software on it). In either case, if you ever have problems with your computer and need to recover files, there's very little hope.

I bought an 80 gig maxtor a month ago or so, and the retail version came with a ata133 card (really just a renamed promise controller). I had problems with that (i.e. my hard drive lost it's format after a week), but that turned out to be a problem with the card's bios and ntfs. After updating, using promise's bios, everything worked fine.

I would definitely recommend purchasing the card in your case. It's fast, and it gives you two more ide channels (which lets you have four more devices, or more ideally, lets you run each device off it's own channel). Anyway, good luck with whatever you decide, but i'd definitely recommend deciding againt the drive overlay.

Hope this helps a little.

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