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200gb recognized as 130gb in bios
Name: Cius Date: March 3, 2005 at 17:22:28 Pacific OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 CPU/Ram: P4 2.8/1 GB Kingston PC 3
Comment:
I'm looking ot install linux on an hdd in an old pIII machine. I bought a shiny new 200 gig hdd for this purpose (using as a server), but I read that your bios needs to recognize the big drive. I checked and my bios only says its 130 gig. I assume this is a problem.
Now for my question. If I were to formate hte drive with two 100 gig partitions, would I still have problems? Will I not be able to access the other 70 gigs at all because of my bios?
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Name: hwood Date: March 3, 2005 at 19:12:45 Pacific
Reply:
If the BIOS only "sees" 130gb that is all you will get. You need a hard drive controller that supports 48-bit lba to use the full capacity of the drive.
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Response Number 2
Name: Michael J (by mjdamato) Date: March 3, 2005 at 23:31:48 Pacific
Reply:
Before buying anything see if there is a newer BIOS for your computer. Unless the MB is very old there should be a BIOS update to allow for bigger hard drives.
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