DaveW wrote: *** and top-posted. Fixed. ***
> "Rajat" <RajatTyagi12@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
>> I have a old computer configuration with Pentium 166 MMX and
>> 6 GB of hardisk. This has not been of much use lately.
>>
>> I was wondering if there is any limit on the size of the Hard
>> disk that can be attached to this. If I attach a recent 160GB
>> hdd to this, will it work?
>
> You ARE limited to the 6 GB harddrive with that motherboard's old
> BIOS.

You only need to replace the bios HD access, and you can also do
this with a suitable ROM. I forget the names, but there are
manufacturers of such devices, which just sit on an extra card (PCI
or ISB etc.).

Please do not top-post. Your answer belongs after (or intermixed
with) the quoted material to which you reply, after snipping all
irrelevant material. I fixed this one. See the following links:

<http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html>
<http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html>
<http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html>
<http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/> (taming google)
<http://members.fortunecity.com/nnqweb/> (newusers)

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