Hard Drive Needs Replaceing

[Patrick Whittle]

We need to replace a hard drive, and I need to know what the maximum size
the system board will support. Since the old drive is toast (38.7 GB) the
only way I can get system info is through <DEL> and the BIOS; the system has
an Intel board with a 2001 manufactured date.

If I buy the drive we're looking at, Barracuda® 7200.12 Hard Drive by
Seagate, is this a good choice? Do you think my system BIOS is compatible?

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/desktops/barracuda_hard_drives/barracuda_7200.12/

 

[Dave Patrick]

What mobo/bios manufacturer and version?


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[Patrick Whittle]

Intel Pentium 4 @ 1.70 GHz
BIOS Version: HV84510A.86A.0018.P04

What mobo/bios manufacturer and version?


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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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We need to replace a hard drive, and I need to know what the maximum size
the system board will support. Since the old drive is toast (38.7 GB)
the only way I can get system info is through <DEL> and the BIOS; the
system has an Intel board with a 2001 manufactured date.

If I buy the drive we're looking at, Barracuda® 7200.12 Hard Drive by
Seagate, is this a good choice? Do you think my system BIOS is
compatible?

http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/products/desktops/barracuda_hard_drives/barracuda_7200.12/

 

[Dave Patrick]

From the bios string I went here
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-009015.htm

and here
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d845wn/wn_howto.htm
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-010355.htm

You didn't mention the disk size but it looks like it shouldn't be a
problem.




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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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[stxitfk]

Seagate is a famous brand, I'm using Seagate. Suggestions to use disk clone software to transfer data quickly into new hard drive.