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Dimension 4300 BIOS Large Disk Support
I have a Dimension 4300 with the A02 BIOS. I recently installed a 160GB hard drive. Windows only sees 127GM however. Does the BIOS support 160 GB? If not, what BIOS do I need?
volcano11
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November 19th, 2005 00:00
The BIOS release notes for that system do not show that 48 bit LBA support was added at any time, but other users have reported that such support for large hard drives was present in the intitial release of the BIOS. Note that in order for Windows to deal with drives larger than 137 Gb, it must be at least SP1. The original release of Windows XP did not have large drive support. If you are partitioning and formatting with an original version of Windows XP, the best way around the limitation is to create a slipstreamed CD with SP2 slipstreamed into the original Windows XP.
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November 20th, 2005 15:00