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The reason Partition Magic complains is probably because you were booting the Partition Magic boot disk without letting the hard drive boot first and load the disk manager overlay. Given that you're booting Partition Magic from CD-ROM, it's probably impossible to have the overlay load first before b...

Thank you very much! I've done a little testing now and thought I'd share my experience so far. First of all, it found a 122GB UDMA 2 hard drive. Very good. I boot up Windows 98 and get a look at a hard disk formatted and stuffed from use on a newer system. Corruption galore. Very bad. Putting the d...

The operating system is Windows 98. This motherboard uses the Intel i430TX chipset. I am aware of many systems that allow you to set a maximum UDMA mode in the BIOS, but this isn't one of them. BIOS setup allows the selection of PIO modes, but for UDMA, the only available options are Auto and Disabl...

My Azza PT-5IT motherboard seems to be unable to work with hard drives larger than 32 GB on its own. I have a Maxtor 120GB hard drive that causes the BIOS to freeze when trying to auto-detect it. The drive doesn't cause a freeze problem with the 32GB cap jumper set, but then I only have 32 GB of usa...