new hard drive with old PC?

[wizzzer]

I have a PC I got around 1997. It has a 133mhz pentium classic and
Windows 98. The hard drives in it are from between 1994 to 1997 (Maxtor
& Quantum). I think they are AT drives, using the IDE interface.
Sometimes they have difficulty starting back up after they shut down,
so I need to get a new hard drive finally. I'm thinking of getting a
"Western Digital WD 80 7200 internal." Would that work in my system?

 

[Rod Speed]

I have a PC I got around 1997. It has a 133mhz pentium classic and
Windows 98. The hard drives in it are from between 1994 to 1997
(Maxtor & Quantum). I think they are AT drives, using the IDE interface.
Sometimes they have difficulty starting back up after they shut down,

Thats much more likely to be the dinosaur PC than
the hard drives given that you see it with both drives.

so I need to get a new hard drive finally.

You might well find that it makes no difference to that symptom.

I'm thinking of getting a "Western Digital WD 80
7200 internal." Would that work in my system?

You might well find that the PC cant see the whole drive.

 

[Arno Wagner]

I have a PC I got around 1997. It has a 133mhz pentium classic and
Windows 98. The hard drives in it are from between 1994 to 1997 (Maxtor
& Quantum). I think they are AT drives, using the IDE interface.
Sometimes they have difficulty starting back up after they shut down,
so I need to get a new hard drive finally. I'm thinking of getting a
"Western Digital WD 80 7200 internal." Would that work in my system?

You will likely need a controller with BIOS. There might also be
limitations in Win98 as to partiton size.

Arno

 

[Fantabulum]

Arno Wagnerwrote:

You will likely need a controller with BIOS. There might also be
limitations in Win98 as to partiton size.

Yeah, you'll need a UDMA card that overrides the system BIOS. A
133Mhz proccessor probably won't be able to take fully exploit your
7,200 HD... it's just to slow
Arno[/quote:851620787c] .

 

[Ying]

What is this card you speak about? cam you give an example as I think i
have this same problem.... got a 400mhz PII P2B motherboard, cant get an
80GB ATA100 hard drive to work proper. Sounds like i need a controller too?

Arno Wagnerwrote:

You will likely need a controller with BIOS. There might also be
limitations in Win98 as to partiton size.

Yeah, you'll need a UDMA card that overrides the system BIOS. A
133Mhz proccessor probably won't be able to take fully exploit your
7,200 HD... it's just to slow
Arno[/quote:851620787c] .

 

[Peter]

What is this card you speak about? cam you give an example as I think i

have this same problem.... got a 400mhz PII P2B motherboard, cant get an
80GB ATA100 hard drive to work proper. Sounds like i need a controller too?

That might help:
http://www.asus.com/support/faq/qanda.aspx?KB_ID=82992

 

[Eric Gisin]

As if controllers without BIOS are still around.

Yeah, you'll need a UDMA card that overrides the system BIOS. A
133Mhz proccessor probably won't be able to take fully exploit your
7,200 HD... it's just to slow

Clueless. The lack of UDMA is the bottleneck.

The OP has a PC from 96/97. Most likely it will not see more than 32GB.

It also sounds like he has PSU problems. Don't waste money if the system is
dying.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

It will still be the same limitations as to what he has now.

As if controllers without BIOS are still around.

As a matter of fact, they are available again in the HighPoint Rocket 133S.

There is no such thing as an "UDMA card that overrides the system BIOS".

Clueless. The lack of UDMA is the bottleneck.

The OP has a PC from 96/97.

Mine is too and it has UDMA.
And according too Ron Speedless you won't notice the difference
between 15MB/s and 30MB/s anyway, so who cares, right?

Most likely it will not see more than 32GB.

If it doesn't hang before that.

It also sounds like he has PSU problems.

Don't waste money if the system is dying.

But surplus PSUs may be available cheap.