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Pentium 133MHz question

PostPosted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 10:52 pm
by VoltureX
Hi.

I have an Intel M507 mainboard which states in the manual I can only use up to 8.4GB harddrives. Are there any hacks so I can use my 40GB harddrive instead?

Thanks!

Volt.

Re: Pentium 133MHz question

PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:48 am
by Kherr
I'm not sure about that, we'll have to look into this. I'm assuming you've not found anything on google?

Re: Pentium 133MHz question

PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 12:15 pm
by PMJPlay
Welcome to the Forums btw!

Re: Pentium 133MHz question

PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 2:59 pm
by SE7EN
You MIGHT be able to use a different computer to format that drive to have multiple partitions that are smaller than the limit.

Re: Pentium 133MHz question

PostPosted: Fri Nov 29, 2013 7:23 am
by lotharian
I am pretty sure thats the board that I used at work back in the day... and there was a flash upgrade that got it to see larger drives, I think 20 gb or so and it was wonky and only worked with the old Maxtor Big Foot drive. The tech back then was unforgiving with flashes so be warned.

Re: Pentium 133MHz question

PostPosted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 7:36 am
by Roman78
There are some limitations whit hard drives at 8,4gb, 32gb and 128gb. Depending on the disk there are jumpers to set it to the 8,4 or 32gb limitation (for your mainboard it should set to 8,4). And than there is a software tool from the manufacturer (when you cant find it i think i have all here) to enable a softbios kind thing in the MBR of the disk to enable the whole disk space.