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????
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
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17819885
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????
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
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17819885
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