RE: large capacity 160 gigabyte harddrive

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From: Lee (Lee_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 12/22/04


Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 03:13:02 -0800


IIRC it's not the OC that's the issue, nor the BIOS version, but your
motherboard which says whether it'll take the size of motherboard or not. I'm
sure there's a limit of 137.5 GB on some of the slightly older mobo's.

"scottnalaska" wrote:

> I am adding a 160 gigabyte harddrive to my HP Pavilion 6465 desktop
> and would prefer that the whole drive is recognized. Do I need to
> update my bios and/or update XP to include SP2?
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