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how to fix a new hard disk to old computer?

by ceebezee Sep 16, 2005 10:44AM PDT

Sir,
I am a new member to your august forum. Kindly help me out. I want to know how to fix a new hard drive to my pentium celeron. It has a mercury motherboard with 256 mb RAM. Mainboard : Unspecified i810-W83627HF
Chipset : Intel i810
Processor : Intel Celeron @ 501 MHz
Hard Disk : SAMSUNG SV0842D (8 GB)
will my new hard disk mate to my old computer. I have aperfectly running machine but i need extra storage space.
Regards
Karthik

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by howard15 Sep 16, 2005 1:42PM PDT

Hi Karthik,

How big of a hard drive are you hooking up to the old computer? Some motherboards aren't capable of recognizing some of the larger sized hard drives. You will have to read your motherboard manual and find this out. In some cases, you will have to upgrade your bios in order for your motherboard to recognize the new drive. You're other option is to purchase an external hard drive and use it that way.

Hope this helps,

Howard

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by ceebezee Sep 17, 2005 10:20AM PDT

Hello Howard,
Thanks a lot for the message. Since i got the computer assembled i do not have the manual. I am thinking of going in for 40 GB.

Regards
Karthik.

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by linkit Sep 19, 2005 1:58PM PDT

I did find motherboards with the ''i810-W83627HF'' combination. They were all from 1999, which means they used ultra ATA/33 hard drives, and maybe ultra ATA/66 at fastest. Today's new ultra ATA drives are ATA/100 and ATA/133.

If you want to get a new HD, but your motherboard's HD controller chip doesn't support it, you still can add an ATA100/133 HD controller card ($10-15 USD, less on eBay) to an empty PCI slot and connect the HD there. So, you do have options.

If you are running Windows XP and the HD is less than 127GB, you should be OK with new PCI hard disk controller card. What operating system are you using?

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