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Hard drive upgrade
Name: dwsr1 Date: November 15, 2005 at 09:52:05 Pacific OS: XPhome CPU/Ram: 2.66/512
Comment:
First off I don't know allot but learn quite abit from you guys and I thank you for all the help you give. Mother Board Intel Corp. D8445GVSR, Bios Version Intel Corp. SR84510B.44T.0042.P09.0406030153 Date 06/03/04.Question is what Is biggest hard drive could I put In or what Is biggest I would support? Thank you all.
Name: INH Date: November 15, 2005 at 10:32:59 Pacific
Reply:
if you still boot from your existing drive, you can add an extra one of any size on any board. I once had 2x 250gb hard drives running of the ide controller of an sb pro.
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Response Number 2
Name: Sandor (by prdsknoll) Date: November 15, 2005 at 10:45:14 Pacific
Reply:
Since your chipset supports Intel's Application Accelerator Driver,
http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/iaa/
with Windows XP SP1, you will be able to support any hard drive greater than 137 GB; even 400 GB.
Intel Application Accelerator provides support for 137GB and larger IDE hard drives.
What you may not be able to do is create a single large partition natively.
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