+200 gb harddrives?

[Henrik Johnson]

I'm thinking of buying a new harddrive for my PC, this time a really large
one... I have a MSI KT4V motherboard, and I don't think there will be any
problems for the motherboard to recognize it... I just want to know if
anyone else has had experience with "older" motherboards and new
harddrives... Well, it's not that old, I got it last summer...
I'm thinking of buying a Seagate 200 gb drive...

 

[VWWall]

I'm thinking of buying a new harddrive for my PC, this time a really large
one... I have a MSI KT4V motherboard, and I don't think there will be any
problems for the motherboard to recognize it... I just want to know if
anyone else has had experience with "older" motherboards and new
harddrives... Well, it's not that old, I got it last summer...
I'm thinking of buying a Seagate 200 gb drive...

For a hard drive >128GB, (~137GB in HD makers terminology), you need two
things:

A BIOS that supports 48bit LAB.
An OS that supports the drive--WinXP w/SP1, Win2K w/SP3.

Check the manual or the MSI site for the BIOS. You know which OS you
have!

Virg Wall

 

[John]

I'm thinking of buying a new harddrive for my PC, this time a really large
one... I have a MSI KT4V motherboard, and I don't think there will be any
problems for the motherboard to recognize it... I just want to know if
anyone else has had experience with "older" motherboards and new
harddrives... Well, it's not that old, I got it last summer...
I'm thinking of buying a Seagate 200 gb drive...

IF you bought it last summer and it was a fairly new model then it
should have problems but you need the service pack installed for WIN
XP for HDs bigger than 120 gigs I think.

 

[Henrik Johnson]

No problem, I have WinXP with SP1... Maybe it's best to also do an BIOS
upgrade prior to installation?

 

[John]

No problem, I have WinXP with SP1... Maybe it's best to also do an BIOS
upgrade prior to installation?

I guess it wouldnt hurt though some people have the - if it aint broke
dont fix it POV when it comes to bios upgrades because you always get
these people with a dead board from a bios flash. Ive done it zillions
of times and its only happened once , years ago with a Shuttle board.

And I live dangerously. Ive actually flashed many times with the GASP
, windows auto flasher ulitility that comes with ASUS ! Most people
tell you to never do it that way. Do it with a floppy boot disk.

You probably wont have to flash but it might improve something else on
your board.

 

[kony]

I guess it wouldnt hurt though some people have the - if it aint broke
dont fix it POV when it comes to bios upgrades because you always get
these people with a dead board from a bios flash. Ive done it zillions
of times and its only happened once , years ago with a Shuttle board.

And I live dangerously. Ive actually flashed many times with the GASP
, windows auto flasher ulitility that comes with ASUS ! Most people
tell you to never do it that way. Do it with a floppy boot disk.

You probably wont have to flash but it might improve something else on
your board.

A BIOS upgrade is often most important when the board is an earlier
revision or if manufacturer doesn't release so many updates, such that
there's a long interval between updates and more issues resolved with the
first few updates.

Otherwise some manufacturers have good bios notes, if those notes make
mention of the HDD size being addressed or other significant issue then an
informed decision can be made. Then again there's always the "try it and
see" approach, could be the drive's capacity is already supported.