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Laptop Question
xabia
Posts: 18 Forumite
in Techie Stuff
I have an old laptop that will not recognise a hard drive above 10GB.I have a 40GB hard drive.If i partition say into 4 partitions will the old laptop now recognise it???
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What laptop?0
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Compaq armada m3000
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No it won't work. Google for "Drive Overlay software". You'll need to create a bootable floppy with it on and use that to install the drive. If you know the make of the drive, the manufacturers website should have some you can use.0
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