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Posted by Roy on May 2, 2009, 4:23 am
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Due to lack of space I am planning to upgrade one of my notebooks
hard drive but I was worried that bigger drives are sometimes not
supported by the bios.
May I know what is the maximum drive space size can can replace a 100
gigs HDD that will be supported by its bios?
Is there a tweak to on this limitation so that I can instal the
biggest drive in that unit?
TIA
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Posted by Barry Watzman on May 2, 2009, 5:17 am
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There is no way to answer your question from the information you have
given (you didn't give the model number of the laptop or even the
interface type (ide or sata) of the drive). Basically, however, for a
laptop that currently has a 100GB hard drive, you are either limited to
120GB or there probably is no limit. If the drive is SATA, or if the
laptop is more recent than about 2003, there probably is no limit.
Otherwise, you MAY be limited to 120GB and below.
Roy wrote:
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> Due to lack of space I am planning to upgrade one of my notebooks
> hard drive but I was worried that bigger drives are sometimes not
> supported by the bios.
> May I know what is the maximum drive space size can can replace a 100
> gigs HDD that will be supported by its bios?
> Is there a tweak to on this limitation so that I can instal the
> biggest drive in that unit?
> TIA
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Posted by Roy on May 2, 2009, 5:37 am
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> There is no way to answer your question from the information you have
> given (you didn't give the model number of the laptop or even the
> interface type (ide or sata) of the drive). =A0Basically, however, for a
> laptop that currently has a 100GB hard drive, you are either limited to
> 120GB or there probably is no limit. =A0If the drive is SATA, or if the
> laptop is more recent than about 2003, there probably is no limit.
> Otherwise, you MAY be limited to 120GB and below.
Hmm , thats nice , meaning I can now upgrade that to 500gigs, thank
Barry...
This is a Sony Laptop with SATA 100gb 5400RPM.
Bios Version date -American Megatrends inc R0090F,7.1,2005
Are there any less known but important issues in upgrading notebooks
harddrives that you are aware about?
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Posted by Barry Watzman on May 2, 2009, 11:02 am
Please log in for more thread options You should be fine. But unless you absolutely need 500gb, I'd go with
320gb and 7200 rpm (which you can find for as little as about $60).
Roy wrote:
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>> There is no way to answer your question from the information you have
>> given (you didn't give the model number of the laptop or even the
>> interface type (ide or sata) of the drive). Basically, however, for a
>> laptop that currently has a 100GB hard drive, you are either limited to
>> 120GB or there probably is no limit. If the drive is SATA, or if the
>> laptop is more recent than about 2003, there probably is no limit.
>> Otherwise, you MAY be limited to 120GB and below.
> Hmm , thats nice , meaning I can now upgrade that to 500gigs, thank
> Barry...
> This is a Sony Laptop with SATA 100gb 5400RPM.
> Bios Version date -American Megatrends inc R0090F,7.1,2005
> Are there any less known but important issues in upgrading notebooks
> harddrives that you are aware about?
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Posted by Roy on May 4, 2009, 3:05 am
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> You should be fine. =A0But unless you absolutely need 500gb, I'd go with
> 320gb and 7200 rpm (which you can find for as little as about $60).
> Roy wrote:
> >> There is no way to answer your question from the information you have
> >> given (you didn't give the model number of the laptop or even the
> >> interface type (ide or sata) of the drive). =A0Basically, however, for=
a
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> >> laptop that currently has a 100GB hard drive, you are either limited t=
o
show/hide quoted text
> >> 120GB or there probably is no limit. =A0If the drive is SATA, or if th=
e
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> >> laptop is more recent than about 2003, there probably is no limit.
> >> Otherwise, you MAY be limited to 120GB and below.
> > Hmm , thats nice , meaning I can now upgrade that to 500gigs, thank
> > Barry...
> > This is a Sony Laptop =A0with SATA 100gb 5400RPM.
> > Bios Version date -American Megatrends inc R0090F,7.1,2005
> > Are there any less known but important =A0issues in upgrading notebooks
> > harddrives that you are aware about?- Hide quoted text -
> - Show quoted text -
Thanks Barry, just upgraded it to 320 gig but as the 5400 rpm was the
one I got instead of the 7200 rpm I just went with the upgrading . It
was a seagate, and cost me nearly 50 bucks but any way...its done and
so far there was no problem except for some missing drivers that I am
still trying to find in the net...
Is there a faster way to get it done fast?
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> hard drive but I was worried that bigger drives are sometimes not
> supported by the bios.
> May I know what is the maximum drive space size can can replace a 100
> gigs HDD that will be supported by its bios?
> Is there a tweak to on this limitation so that I can instal the
> biggest drive in that unit?
> TIA