adding new hardrive, Newbie to this [gig hd] [phoenix bios]
Q: adding new hardrive, this
I newbie to have a NEC P233mmx, w98, 128 ram . 2 GIG HD and many of the SW with the machine new. I also have a recovery CD, an all or nothing install.
I also have a CD burner, and a ZIP, floppie.
I also have an older Phoenix BIOS (1996.1997?) Maybe 4.05 V? that might cause me problems with a larger HD. This new machine was a P133 NOT mmx.
I have shopped for a pair of HDs, and I have several to choose from here with me. All Maxtor, a 17 gig 5400 spin, a 30 GIG, 7200 spin. The Maxtor came with their own cable, and a MaxBlast SW.
Walk me through what I need to note before I start unplugging cables etc.
I have NEVER seen a HD attached to a PC before, I grew up on Macs
What 
I do have to look in my BIOS settings?
master slave? Automatic detection?
I connected the CD burner two years ago, I forgot what I was to.
What master and slave I would do is install it, and later, my w98 to move on
anyone have time to walk me through this?
I have Partian Magic vs 3 . I think I have a FAT 32 on this drive, years ago
I have a W95 CD, and an upgrade CD w98 also.
thanks
Best Answer: You could just replace the hard drive with the one in your laptop, provided they are both 2.5" SATA drives.
Re:Update
I was on the phone most of this a m with Maxtor support.
I connected their drive with their cable on the 2nd master.
I ran their maxblast SW, set up partians. I open My Computer, I see the new drives But….everytime I shut down, the computer
does not keep the new drive letters.
All that shows up in my computer, is the old
drives.
Maxtor, gave up. we have ran fdisk, and their maxblast sw.
Now, my startup after using their sw is very very slow 
any tips on why maxblast will not work?
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When I try to make a boot disk, will it use my Memorex CD burner drivers? That is the only CD I have connected to this PC.
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When you make a Windows 98 boot disk it uses generic CD-ROM drivers that will allow you to use almost any CD-ROM device as a CD-ROM (it won't allow you to burn from DOS). Whether it will enable it on startup depends on your selection after it starts booting to the disk. It will ask you if you want to start with or without CD-ROM support. Choose with CD-ROM support and the drivers should work and you will be ready to go.
I have used MaxBlast many times in the past to set up hard drives and it is a very good utility, so if you want to download and use that to setup/partition the new drive, that would probably work great and it is easier for a first timer than using a Windows 98 startup disk and doing it manually.
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When I try to make a boot disk, will it use my Memorex CD burner drivers? That is the only CD I have connected to this PC.
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Years ago, I flashed the Bios on this machine. I lost everything on reboot. I had to run w98 10 times to get all drivers back, I lost my onboard soundcard in the process. I am now gun shy about flashing the Bios.
You mentioned the MaxBlast. After I connect the cables, place the MaxBlast in the floppie drive, and the PC should boot? It will give me a window to format, partian, fat 32 the drive?
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If I make a boot disk from w98, will it see my CD burner on startup?
I took out the other cd player
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Re:I would get the cheapest one, as you only have UDMA 33 and can't take advantage of UDMA 66 or 100 without a controller card.
Set the Bios to auto, auto, you may have a problem recognising a larger hard drive, look for a Bios update from Nec.
Depending on what you want to do: If it's going to be the main drive set it as Master then set your other one to slave.
Make a bootable floppy system disk in Add Remove Programs, boot with the floppy, Type Fdisk and make a partition,it will ask you to use all available space, say yes. Reboot with the floppy and type Format C:/s to copy system files. Reboot and load your CD Rom drivers if you don't have the option of booting off the CD Rom in bios.
Install operating system.
You could also just use the Maxi Blast software disk that it comes with it. this will do all the steps for you automatically.
Be sure you hook the IDE cable, the one with the red or black stripe in the proper orientation on the motherboard, look at how it's connected before you attach the new one.
The red stripe side goes next to the power connector on the Hard drive.
Re:Shut the compuer down, then plug the hard drive in, use the disc that come w/ the HD (if one did) and "bam!", it's connected
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