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| Jimmy Roberts... |
 Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 12:09 am |
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My Sony Viao PCV-RX360DS (UC28554430) came with an Asustek CUSL-LV
Rev. 1.xx mobo and a 40 GB ST340823A Rev. 3.07 hard drive.
Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard
drive with a 250 GB WDC WD2500BB 55GUC0 Rev. 08.02D08 hard drive?
Thanks!
Jimmy Roberts
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| Rod Speed... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 4:10 am |
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Jimmy Roberts wrote:
Quote: My Sony Viao PCV-RX360DS (UC28554430) came with an Asustek CUSL-LV
Rev. 1.xx mobo and a 40 GB ST340823A Rev. 3.07 hard drive.
Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard drive
with a 250 GB WDC WD2500BB 55GUC0 Rev. 08.02D08 hard drive?
Any IDE drive will work fine. |
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| Jimmy Roberts... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 10:07 pm |
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On Sep 26, 5:43 pm, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Quote: Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:
This ancient a motherboard can easily have BIOS issues with drives > 128GB
That one doesnt.
I currently have the 250-GB WD2500BB hard drive installed as a slave
and Windows XP recognizes all 250 GB...
Should that give me a greater sense of security?
JKR |
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| Maxim S. Shatskih... |
| Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:43 pm |
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This ancient a motherboard can easily have BIOS issues with drives > 128GB
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Maxim S. Shatskih
Windows DDK MVP
maxim at (no spam) storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com
"Jimmy Roberts" <jkr1963 at (no spam) verizon.net> wrote in message news:eda2eb05-2610-423e-8e63-93d9825f0819 at (no spam) g1g2000vbr.googlegroups.com...
Quote: My Sony Viao PCV-RX360DS (UC28554430) came with an Asustek CUSL-LV
Rev. 1.xx mobo and a 40 GB ST340823A Rev. 3.07 hard drive.
Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard
drive with a 250 GB WDC WD2500BB 55GUC0 Rev. 08.02D08 hard drive?
Thanks!
Jimmy Roberts
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| Rod Speed... |
| Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 1:43 am |
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Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:
Quote: This ancient a motherboard can easily have BIOS issues with drives > 128GB
That one doesnt.
Quote: Jimmy Roberts <jkr1963 at (no spam) verizon.net> wrote
My Sony Viao PCV-RX360DS (UC28554430) came with an Asustek CUSL-LV
Rev. 1.xx mobo and a 40 GB ST340823A Rev. 3.07 hard drive.
Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard
drive with a 250 GB WDC WD2500BB 55GUC0 Rev. 08.02D08 hard drive? |
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| Rod Speed... |
| Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 3:40 am |
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Jimmy Roberts wrote
Quote: Rod Speed <rod.speed.... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote
Maxim S. Shatskih wrote
This ancient a motherboard can easily have BIOS issues with drives > 128GB
That one doesnt.
I currently have the 250-GB WD2500BB hard drive installed
as a slave and Windows XP recognizes all 250 GB...
Should that give me a greater sense of security?
Yes. |
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| Maxim S. Shatskih... |
| Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 3:52 am |
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Quote: Should that give me a greater sense of security?
Surely yes.
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Windows DDK MVP
maxim at (no spam) storagecraft.com
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| Barry Watzman... |
| Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 4:31 am |
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Probably; I'd say definitely if you are using more than 137GB
successfully. There are, however, situations in which the drive will be
"recognized" as more than 137GB, but when you start writing to it
(beyond the 137GB point), it "wraps" and destroys the drive (not
physically, but the contents are lost). The simple fact that it sees
the drive and reports it's full [but, so far, not actually used or
accessed] capacity is not absolutely definitive. But it is a good sign.
Jimmy Roberts wrote:
Quote: On Sep 26, 5:43 pm, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:
This ancient a motherboard can easily have BIOS issues with drives > 128GB
That one doesnt.
I currently have the 250-GB WD2500BB hard drive installed as a slave
and Windows XP recognizes all 250 GB...
Should that give me a greater sense of security?
JKR |
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| Franc Zabkar... |
| Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2009 5:15 am |
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On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:43:57 +0400, "Maxim S. Shatskih"
<maxim at (no spam) storagecraft.com.no.spam> put finger to keyboard and composed:
Quote: This ancient a motherboard can easily have BIOS issues with drives > 128GB
You can test for 48-bit LBA support in your BIOS using IDEINFO/HDINFO:
http://www.48bitlba.com/hdinfodetails.htm
- Franc Zabkar
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| Andy... |
| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:31 am |
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On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:07:58 -0700 (PDT), Jimmy Roberts
<jkr1963 at (no spam) verizon.net> wrote:
Quote: On Sep 26, 5:43 pm, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:
Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:
This ancient a motherboard can easily have BIOS issues with drives > 128GB
That one doesnt.
I currently have the 250-GB WD2500BB hard drive installed as a slave
and Windows XP recognizes all 250 GB...
Should that give me a greater sense of security?
The bios is only used is to boot Windows XP, so you cannot draw any
conclusion about the bios from a running Windows XP. In other words,
Windows XP can support 48-bit LBA even if the bios does not.
Conversely, pre-SP1 Windows XP supports only 28-bit LBA even if the
bios supports 48-bit LBA.
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