Will i get problems if I do this???

lloydsj

lloydsj

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IF AN ADMIN THINKS THIS WOULD BE BETTER IN HARDDISK FORUM, PLEASE MOVE CHEERS

Ok, in a nutshell.

My bios doesn't support large harddisks (over about 120gb). So I wondered what would happen if I put my new 160gb harddisk in my main pc, format it there to full capacity, and then put it back in the laptop??

All seems to have worked fine. The laptop see's it ok and it showing the correct sizes for the 2 partitions (boot 30gb and data 122 gb).

Is this going to work OR am I asking for trouble and I'm going to get corrupted data???? :confused:

Cheers.

PS. My original post for background info is below, and i rang acer and phoenix and they told me there is no bios update for my laptop that allows larger HD's :mad:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17819885
 
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I doubt it'll work, the circa 120GB limit will be down to the addressing that the BIOS can handle. It won't be 120GB exactly, it'll be 2 to the power whatever bytes that sits above 120GB, from your original post this seems to be around 129GB.

I've not done laptop support for years - in my day 80GB was the largest laptop drive - so I may be wrong on this, but I suspect it's reading the correct size because the capacity of the drive will be read from the file table at the beginning of the drive. When you go above the size that your BIOS can address to, you'll start experiencing data corruption or the data simply won't be read.

All you can do is test it I suppose, fill the drive and see what happens.

al
 
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