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***glc*** · 05-22-2003, 09:34 AM

See if you can determine where your bios tops out at - it's probably gonna be either 8 or 32 gigs. If it's 32, you could replace the 3 gig with a 30 gig and use software to clone the old drive to the new and just remove the old drive completely. If you have an open PCI slot, you can get a controller card and put as big a drive as you want in it. You could partition the new drive and install XP on a different partition and have a dual boot machine. However, a P2 with 160 ram is pretty marginal for XP, it gets pretty doggy with less than 256 ram and 400 MHz.

05-22-2003, 09:34 AM	#6
*glc* Forum Administrator Staff Premium Member Join Date: May 2000 Location: Joplin MO Posts: 37,727	See if you can determine where your bios tops out at - it's probably gonna be either 8 or 32 gigs. If it's 32, you could replace the 3 gig with a 30 gig and use software to clone the old drive to the new and just remove the old drive completely. If you have an open PCI slot, you can get a controller card and put as big a drive as you want in it. You could partition the new drive and install XP on a different partition and have a dual boot machine. However, a P2 with 160 ram is pretty marginal for XP, it gets pretty doggy with less than 256 ram and 400 MHz.