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HDD Compatibility
On 1/31/2006 8:07 PM, David Maynard wrote:
No, what I mentioned is a disk manager program that installs a boot loader on the drive that replaces the limited BIOS IDE handler so the full capacity of the drive is available, not something that limits the drive. Something like this one: http://www.samsung.com/Products/Hard...ive/utilities/ but I don't know if their version will allow usage with other manufacturer's drives and I note that on the page link you posted they've removed Disk Manager because "systems with Windows XP and 2000 don't require it." Not exactly precise because W2k/XP won't 'fix' an old motherboard BIOS but I guess they just don't support older systems. Of course, if you don't mind losing drive capacity then the drive limiter would work. I installed the drive yesterday, and WinXP (SP2) was able to see all 250GB w/o anything else. But when I go to BIOS, it shows only 65GB or so. Thinking if I should leave it like this, or do something so that the BIOS could also see the full capacity. What are the pros/cons of leaving BIOS like as it is now? -- Please reply to the newsgroup. To mail me directly, replace 'K' with 'e'. |
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HDD Compatibility
Samik R wrote:
On 1/31/2006 8:07 PM, David Maynard wrote: No, what I mentioned is a disk manager program that installs a boot loader on the drive that replaces the limited BIOS IDE handler so the full capacity of the drive is available, not something that limits the drive. Something like this one: http://www.samsung.com/Products/Hard...ive/utilities/ but I don't know if their version will allow usage with other manufacturer's drives and I note that on the page link you posted they've removed Disk Manager because "systems with Windows XP and 2000 don't require it." Not exactly precise because W2k/XP won't 'fix' an old motherboard BIOS but I guess they just don't support older systems. Of course, if you don't mind losing drive capacity then the drive limiter would work. I installed the drive yesterday, and WinXP (SP2) was able to see all 250GB w/o anything else. But when I go to BIOS, it shows only 65GB or so. Thinking if I should leave it like this, or do something so that the BIOS could also see the full capacity. What are the pros/cons of leaving BIOS like as it is now? I suspect it'll appear to work while confined to the lower 65GB but wrap around above that so it writes over itself corrupting the disk. |
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