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Terry Pinnell
I want to add a large HD but I see the following footnote in all the
product ads:
"Note: Larger drives above 120 GB may not have their full capacity
available due to BIOS limitations - users with Win 2000 and XP can fit
a controller card to use the full capacity."
How can I determine for sure whether my 3-year old XP PC will handle
250GB without that hassle please?
Hopefully relevant extract from my PC spec:
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CPU = AMD Athlon XP1800+ with 512MB PC2100 DDR memory, m/b = ASUS
A7A266-E (+sound), BIOS = Award Software with ASUS A7A266-E ACPI BIOS
v 1011, System Chipset = M1647 ALiMAGiK 1 AGP System Controller, Buses
= AGP/PCI/USB, L2 On-board Cache = 256kB ECC synchronous write-back,
HDD = two 60GB 7200rpm MAXTOR 6L060J3 UDMA-133 EIDE with 2MB buffer
product ads:
"Note: Larger drives above 120 GB may not have their full capacity
available due to BIOS limitations - users with Win 2000 and XP can fit
a controller card to use the full capacity."
How can I determine for sure whether my 3-year old XP PC will handle
250GB without that hassle please?
Hopefully relevant extract from my PC spec:
-------------------------------------------
CPU = AMD Athlon XP1800+ with 512MB PC2100 DDR memory, m/b = ASUS
A7A266-E (+sound), BIOS = Award Software with ASUS A7A266-E ACPI BIOS
v 1011, System Chipset = M1647 ALiMAGiK 1 AGP System Controller, Buses
= AGP/PCI/USB, L2 On-board Cache = 256kB ECC synchronous write-back,
HDD = two 60GB 7200rpm MAXTOR 6L060J3 UDMA-133 EIDE with 2MB buffer