Re: 32GB Limit
- From: "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 04:44:45 +1100
Jim <gonehuntin@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
> Believe the Western Digital website offers
> software that checks bios HD capacity limitations.
That only works with a drive bigger than 32G installed.
If you have one installed, its completely obvious if there
is a problem or not, you dont need any software.
The WD ute is only really useful for the 132G limit
where its harder to check if the drive is supported.
> Runs off a boot floppy. Test it yourself,
> then mail to your friend with instructions.
>> 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.
>> Because of the age of the computer, I'm sure it is not over 32GB.
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