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**linderman** · 01-04-2008, 02:06 PM

computers of that era struggled with any drive larger than 32gigs

you will need to buy and install a PCI slot IDE controlelr card which has its own bios if you want to run that drive in the old machine

http://www.shopbot.ca/p-719-1699569.html

their are cheaper IDE controller cards than this one, but the promise brand are the cadalliacs of the controller card market

01-04-2008, 02:06 PM	#4 (permalink)
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