Re: What IDE Drive for my 5 year old Dell8200

Hi Rock
Well as usual Dell responded but indicating that my system will only support a
total of 100GB drive.
At present I have a 60GB master and 40GB slave so that's my limit (or is it??)
I called them today and after they eventually gathered what i was asking they
still tell me that my motherboard will only support 100GB!
Do you know of any reason for that?
I am about to update the BIOS to A09 which is the latest for my PC but at the
moment my Floppy Drive isn't working so will do it another way.

Please let me know if you can think of a reason why Dell would say 100GB max?

Thanks
Steve
"Rock" <rock@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Steve Bird" wrote

Thanks again
Is there a way to check if the Bios supports this larger drive functionality?

"Rock" wrote

"Steve Bird" wrote

Thanks John

Have never had a problem with this HDD yet so cloning it should be OK. I
will image the drive first to be on the safe side.
Was just a little concerned about drive size limit but seeing as I am
running XPSP2 i don't think there will be too much of a problem with say
200GB replacement.

"JohnF" wrote

"Steve Bird" wrote

Hi All

Just after some ideas on what HDD to buy to upgrade in size from my WD
Caviar 60GB IDE 2MB drive I have installed.
I have had my Dell8200 running XP SP2 with P4 1.9 CPU AND 1250MB RDRAM
for 5 years now without hardly a glitch but i seem to be running out of
disk space fast with the kids wanting more and more on it.
I have a slave drive of 40GB also which can stay for now.

The long and short is I am looking for an IDE drive of about 160-250GB to
Ghost my drive across to.
Any ideas?

I've upgraded a number of vintage (200-2002) desktop computers using
Western Digital's Caviar series 7200 RPM drives. (Also, I've usually added
memory). The combination of 5400-to-7400 RPM upgrade and memory upgrade
has generally speeded up the system, especially boot time, and opening
applications and large files.

I see newegg.com has the 160 GB IDE-ATA drives for about $62 including
shipping (model WD1600JB).

I avoid hanging multiple drives on the same IDE bus. I prefer a clean
software reinstall, but if you have confidence in the original drive,
doing an image copy is an option..

To use drives larger than 137GB two things are needed. The BIOS has to
support 48bit LBA, and XP has to be at SP1 or SP2. Most modern BIOS
support 48bit LBA.

Ahh..lol, I see you put 5 yrs old in the subject. It should support 48bit
LBA, but to be sure you need to contact Dell.

--
Rock [MVP - User/Shell]


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