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From: Rod Speed on 13 May 2010 02:45 Ant wrote: >>>>> Do companies still sell new IDE HDDs these days? >>>> Yes. But not that size anymore. >>> OK good. Will there be any BIOS limitations? >> Yes, there can be. >>> I remember those with old PCs in the past and had to use disk overlays or something. >> Yeah. Not clear how old that particular PC is tho, you never did say. > Oh. I think it is from early 2000s. It looked like Windows 2000 was > installed back in 2003. PC is using the latest BIOS as well. The Dell site should tell you if its got any hard drive size bios limitations. Or you could just try it with an IDE drive before you buy a replacement.
From: Rod Speed on 13 May 2010 15:20
Ant wrote > Rod Speed typed >>>>>>> Do companies still sell new IDE HDDs these days? >>>>>> Yes. But not that size anymore. >>>>> OK good. Will there be any BIOS limitations? >>>> Yes, there can be. >>>>> I remember those with old PCs in the past and had to use disk >>>>> overlays or something. >>>> Yeah. Not clear how old that particular PC is tho, you never did say. >>> Oh. I think it is from early 2000s. It looked like Windows 2000 was >>> installed back in 2003. PC is using the latest BIOS as well. >> The Dell site should tell you if its got any hard drive size bios limitations. >> Or you could just try it with an IDE drive before you buy a replacement. > OK. If there IS a problem, then do I just set smaller partitions? Varys with the size problem. You should be fine if you stick with drives smaller than 137GB, Dell should be able to tell you if it cares about the drive size. |