Pentium 133MHz question

[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.

[Kherr]

I'm not sure about that, we'll have to look into this. I'm assuming you've not found anything on google?

[PMJPlay]

Welcome to the Forums btw!

[SE7EN]

You MIGHT be able to use a different computer to format that drive to have multiple partitions that are smaller than the limit.

[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.

[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.