I need to upgrade an Abit KT7 hard disk

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I need to upgrade an Abit KT7 hard disk, but I know that some of the
older motherboards have problems with large hard disks. The current
disk in it is 30G IBM hard disk, but I want to go for todays 320G.

If the BIOS isn't compatible with hard disks of this size, will Windows
XP be able to work around it?

I also wonder whether an external USB disk of that size will be alright
with Windows, so that I can still use the current one for programs and
use the external disk for data.

/My Deja

[Eric P.]

wrote:

> I need to upgrade an Abit KT7 hard disk, but I know that some of the
> older motherboards have problems with large hard disks. The current
> disk in it is 30G IBM hard disk, but I want to go for todays 320G.
>
> If the BIOS isn't compatible with hard disks of this size, will Windows
> XP be able to work around it?
>
> I also wonder whether an external USB disk of that size will be alright
> with Windows, so that I can still use the current one for programs and
> use the external disk for data.
>
> /My Deja
>

Why don't you have a look first on the Abit web pages?
http://www.abit.com.tw/
Or post in the Abit newsgroups?
alt.comp.mainboards.abit
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit

[Detlev Dreyer]

" wrote:

> I need to upgrade an Abit KT7 hard disk, but I know that some of the
> older motherboards have problems with large hard disks. The current
> disk in it is 30G IBM hard disk, but I want to go for todays 320G.
>
> If the BIOS isn't compatible with hard disks of this size, will Windows
> XP be able to work around it?

It's very likely that there will be problems. See also
"Windows XP Does Not Recognize All Available Disk Space"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316505/en-us

> I also wonder whether an external USB disk of that size will be alright
> with Windows, so that I can still use the current one for programs and
> use the external disk for data.

My external USB hard disks are up to 250GB in terms of size (single NTFS
partition) and that's no problem.

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[Yves Leclerc]

If the is no BIOS update to increase the max disk capacity, then you should
look for a PCI ATA/133 adapter card and move the new drive to it. These
adapter cards provide their own BIOSes which should by-pass your motherboard
BIOS limits.

Also, if the new hard drive is SATA based, there are add-on PCI SATA drives
which also should by-pass the motherboard's BIOS limits.




On 15/09/2006 wrote:
>
>I need to upgrade an Abit KT7 hard disk, but I know that some of the
>older motherboards have problems with large hard disks. The current
>disk in it is 30G IBM hard disk, but I want to go for todays 320G.
>
>If the BIOS isn't compatible with hard disks of this size, will Windows
>XP be able to work around it?
>
>I also wonder whether an external USB disk of that size will be alright
>with Windows, so that I can still use the current one for programs and
>use the external disk for data.
>
>/My Deja
>

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