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Latitude C600 laptop will not recognize western digital 320gb drive? Is there a bios upgrade
I have a Latitude C600 laptop will not recognize western digital 320gb drive? It came origianally maybe 10 years ago with a 20gig drive. I now want a larger drive and this one was available and the salesperson said it would work fine in this old model dell.
Question it only recognizes 6025mb in the bios for primary drive. Is there something I can do that will let me use this drive. I have done bios upgrades before that would let you put a larger processor on a motherboard etc. would there be one for a drive upgrade or is this laptop just to old. I spoke to the same place I got this one and they said no-one even makes a 30gb drive anymore.
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wlamore
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April 23rd, 2010 18:00
Hi Wlamore,
The C600 reportedly has a 120GB limitation, but I would try the BIOS upgrade.
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April 24th, 2010 06:00
You cannot use a drive over 120G in the C-series Latitudes - as you've seen.
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April 25th, 2010 09:00
Is the bios upgrade located under the section where you put your service Tag in and it brings up a whole list of drivers etc. for that model?
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April 25th, 2010 10:00
Yes, it's there under Flash BIOS. However, no BIOS for the C-series (or Inspiron 4xxx/8xxx) models will have support for a drive over 120G. Some (the 8200/C840) may work with them - others like the C600/610/640 and Inspiron 4000/4100/4150 will not properly recognize, nor work with a hard drive over 120G.
Return the 320G drive and install a 120 or smaller - it'll come up at the correct capacity and work just fine.
If you must keep the 320, buy an external case for it and use it as a (slow, because of the USB 1.1 on the system) external drive. You can't use it as an internal.