Re: 32GB Limit
- From: "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 10:05:43 +1100
mcp6453 <mcp6453@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Over Thanksgiving, a friend is going to take a new hard drive to install into
> his elderly father's computer. Friend is not very technically adept. I
> maintain the computer by logging into with pcAnywhere. How can I tell whether
> the computer BIOS limits hard drive size to 8GB or 32GB.
There isnt any easy way except putting a drive thats
over 32G in that system and see how it shows up etc.
There's various ways to get it to work if it doesnt initially,
particularly reflashing the bios with a later version.
There are other ways to get around it if you cant do that.
> Because of the age of the computer, I'm sure it is not over 32GB.
You cant be sure of that, the 32G limit is just a
wart in the award bios and if it doesnt even have
one of those, it likely wont have a problem.
The 8G limit isnt seen very often with
systems people are still using now.
.
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