Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*If the cable that is attached to the Primary IDE port of the motherboard has 2 connectors, then attach the new hard drive to the extra connector. I would reccommend designating the new hard drive as Master (MA) and the old drive as Slave (SL). On Western Digital's "Caviar" series of drives, the designating jumpers are between the 40 pin interace connector and the power connector on the end of the drive. What brand/model hard drives are you using? Having the larger hard drive as the boot drive is always a must.
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Once the drives are connected in this fashion, auto detect the drives in the CMOS setup, if the setup does indeed have this option. Otherwise you will have to enter the drive geometry manually. Once this is done, use a program such as EZ-DRIVE or Max Blast to copy the entire partition from the 2gb to the larger one. You may then go back and erase the old 2gb, and boot from the larger one. Make sense? If you don't have and of these utilities, I'd be more than happy to email them to you.
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*As for the memory riser, The only ones that I know of that have been made are 72pin to 30-pin adapters. These will make 4 30-pin simms fit into one 72-pin slot. There's definetely no such thing for 168-pin dimms.
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*Doug, you say that you had to partition into 2.1gb partitions? This must either mean that you have Windows 95A, or your old drive was set up with 16-bit partitions (FAT16), which will go up to only 2.1gb. What you need is to set up 32-bit partitions (FAT32) so that you can recognize up to 100gb. This can only be done with Windows 95B (OSR 2.1) or higher. If you have Windows 95B or higher but are stuck with FAT16 partitions, then use a program such as PartitionMagic to merge them into one big FAT32 partition.
[ January 06, 2002: Message edited by: Pilot ]
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