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July 6th, 2011 01:00

710m hard disk replacement

Hi,

My 80GB hard disk of 5-years old 710m dell inspiron had died yesterday.

As I checked an old forum entry, it say I can get a new one up to 120GB PATA hard disk only due to BIOS limitation.

Please help to advise if there is any method to increase this capacity since I am only able to find larger size PATA hard disk Malaysia, in range of above 250GB.

Do I need a  BIOS upgrade or anything?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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    ejn63

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    Posted July 6th, 2011 05:00

    You can use a larger capacity drive - just  be sure you partition it with a first, 120G partition and install windows to that.  once that's done you can create a second partition to use the rest of the drive.

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    Posted July 8th, 2011 09:00

    If the BIOS senses it at 160, you're set.  The 700m won't  -- it has a 120G limit. The 710m must have support for larger drives the 700m doesn't.

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    Posted July 8th, 2011 00:00

    Ejn63, thanks.

    I got a Samsung 160GB drive and somehow the BIOS recognized it as 160GB as well. I partioned as whole 160GB and it worked fine with XP also. My Bios version is A06. Maybe this has something to do with?

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    Posted July 10th, 2011 20:00

    Thanks.

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