installing new hard drive

[calee]

I want to install a maxtor 100gig 7200rpm ultra/ata100 hd I will install win me first. I will upgrade to 256k of ram. will my system suport this. here's what I'm running. Operating System System Model
Windows 95 B (OSR2) A-Trend ATC-6130 BIOS VER:1.0 03
System Serial Number: ATC61301003
Processor a Main Circuit Board
333 megahertz Intel Pentium II
32 kilobyte primary memory cache
512 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: A-Trend i440LX-W977 VER:1.0 03
Serial Number: ATC61301003
Bus Clock: 66 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. BIOS VER:1.0 03 01/08/98
Drives Memory Modules
6.46 Gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
2.52 Gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

HP CD-Writer+ 9100 [CD-ROM drive]
SONY CD-ROM CDU711
Generic floppy disk drive (3.5")
IOMEGA ZIP 100 [Hard drive]
Maxtor 86480D6 (6.48 GB) [Hard drive] 64 Megabytes Installed Memory
32 Megabyte Module Size - 2 Installed
One Memory Socket is Empty
Controllers Display
Standard Floppy Disk Controller
Primary IDE controller (single fifo)
Secondary IDE controller (single fifo)
Standard Dual PCI IDE Controller
Standard IDE/ESDI Hard Disk Controller S3 Inc. ViRGE GX2 [Display adapter]
Plug and Play Monitor
Bus Adapters Multimedia
None detected S3 Legacy Relocator for SonicVibes PCI Audio Device
S3 SonicVibes PCI Audio Device
S3 SonicVibes PCI Gameport Device
Wave Device for Voice Modem
Buses Communications
PCI bus
ISA bus 5634BTV 56K V.90 Ready Modem
Other Devices
Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural Keyboard
Microsoft PS2 IntelliMouse
HP DeskJet 720C Series [Printer]
thanks lee

[mjc]

Maybe...since you will be going to ME you won't have to worry about the OS causing limits on the hard drive, but I wonder about BIOS imposed ones, and the current motherboard may not support the ATA100, which may or may not be a problem. Some drives will run and be detected ok if hooked up to a lower speed IDE channel others may not detect until they are reset with the manufacturers utility (my Seagate was like this...), most are set, by default to their max so you may have to roll it back to ATA33 or 66, first.

Also don't try doing the 256MB on one stick, you'll probably have better luck using 2 128MB sticks...if you have a manual for it it should say what the capacities are.

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