What is the PC300PL hard drive limit?

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Bookworm · #1 Post by **Bookworm** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:25 pm

What is the biggest hard drive the PC300PL will recognize?

If it makes a difference, mine is the horizonal version with a 450Mhz PII and 768Mb RAM.

leoblob · #2 Post by **leoblob** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:35 pm

I have an 80 gig in mine, no problems. I suspect that a BIOS of that vintage has the 137 gig limit. Of course, you can go over that with partitioning software.

Bookworm · #3 Post by **Bookworm** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 7:49 pm

> I suspect that a BIOS of that vintage has the 137 gig limit.

I don't think I'll be running out of space any time soon with a "limit" like that!

In a few years, I might have to downgrade to ME & ie7 or something because of changing internet requirements. what is the latest version of Windows that will run well (not just run) on a 450Mhz PII, and how much disk space will I have to waste on it?

#4 Post by **jdhurst** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 8:46 pm

I put an aftermarket CPU upgrade in that machine, 120Gb hard drive, 512Mb of ram, and it runs XP Pro quite well. ... JDH

leoblob · #5 Post by **leoblob** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:20 am

Bookworm wrote:...what is the latest version of Windows that will run well (not just run) on a 450Mhz PII, and how much disk space will I have to waste on it?

Running "well" is totally subjective

I think WIN98SE would run well. I have run WIN2K on a 300MHz PII and I thought it was quite slow. I have no experience with WIN ME.

Depending on what you're using the computer for, I would think that 5 gigs is plenty for WIN98SE, and 20 gigs is plenty for WIN2K... but if you're storing videos, high-rez pics, tons of MP3s, etc, then you'd need larger drives regardless of operating system.

As jdhurst points out, a faster processor will let you run a later OS. There are many Slot 1 PIIIs out there that people are practically giving away. You can also find adapters that will let you run even faster Socket 370 PIIIs, but these may be a little pricey.

Bookworm · #6 Post by **Bookworm** » Fri Sep 05, 2008 12:02 pm

I have 98SE running on a 166Mhz PI MMX and it's fine. It was too slow to use on a 486DX4-100, and seems slow on the PII, but getting a second hand computer (free! The thrift shop wouldn't take it, and she couldn't get rid of it !

) you almost always have to reinstall to get the former users bugs out. I expect it to fly when I get the new hard drive. ME/2000 should do pretty well when I have too...I hope.

Bookworm · #7 Post by **Bookworm** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 9:39 pm

Will a BIOS upgrade increase the hard drive limit?

joester · #8 Post by **joester** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:06 pm

I wrestled that demon a while back when setting up computers for my kids...

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as I recall, latest version BIOS did it. I'll have to jump onto his PC and see what version is loaded.

Joe

What is the PC300PL hard drive limit?

What is the PC300PL hard drive limit?

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