New HDD drive compatible?

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I have been given the task of getting a new HDD for my brother.

He has given me the following coding which appears ont he boot-up screen of the pc just before the option to press DEL to enter the BIOS.

VCF0807F.

Using google and others I managed to find the following link.

Is this the mother board?

http://www.biostar.com.tw/support/bios/bios.php3?model=M6VCF

Also Will this work with it?

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=40971

or will it need to be an ATA100?

http://www.ebuyer.com/customer/prod...2hvd19wcm9kdWN0X292ZXJ2aWV3&product_uid=81929

Thanks
 
It does seem highly likely that it is the M6VCF motherboard (manual)

It can only handle IDE hard drives (max speed of UDMA/66), but I see no reason why an ATA133 drive wouldn't be backwards compatible. I often use drives rated above the motherboard specifications and I haven't had any problems - its more expensive to find an older ATA/66 drive. Please correct me if I'm wrong :)
 
An IDE 133/7200rpm drive will do fine.

Any "capacity limitation" will be due to the BIOS and NOT the OS ... a 40/60/80 gig hard drive should be no problem.

If you think the BIOS may have a problem with a 60gig then partition it to 2x30. The same can be done with an 80, 2x30 + 1x20. ;)


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It says in the manual that the BIOS and board support High Capacity HDD but what is high then may not be high now.

Any ideas what would have been high then?

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newbuilder said:
It says in the manual that the BIOS and board support High Capacity HDD but what is high then may not be high now.

Any ideas what would have been high then?

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The BIOS supports UDMA mode drives, so I really do not see any problems.


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