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dib_dab2003
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May 25th, 2005 11:00
upgrading harddrive !
hi,
i have an optiplex gx1 400+,i want to get a bigger harddrive and i was wondering what my limitations where if any,and what problems if any i will run into.
optiplex gx1
6 gb hardrive
400 mhz
256 sdram
dib_dab2003
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Posted May 25th, 2005 14:00
thanx for replying,
im using a slimeline model, at present i have a 6gig drive,which im just going to replace,im using a10 revision bios,do i have to update it ??
dib_dab2003
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Posted May 25th, 2005 15:00
would the bios support any size of drive ??????
acidshadow
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Posted May 25th, 2005 15:00
No, you have the latest version you should be fine. Yes you will need to get another drive then and set the new drive as a slave (which might be interesting because I do not think there is room for two hard drives in the system) and copy over what you have to the new drive.dib_dab2003
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Posted May 25th, 2005 15:00
ok,thankyou.......im just replacing the old 1acidshadow
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Posted May 25th, 2005 15:00
It should. I would stay under 200 GB just because it is an older system but there really should be no size limitationdib_dab2003
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Posted May 25th, 2005 15:00
ok,thanx alotpeterfelgate_ce40d3
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Posted May 25th, 2005 16:00
Hmmm. The GX1 in-built IDE controller ONLY support drives to 127 Gbytes at their full capacity, so I would stick with a 120Gbyte drive maximum. Note that the bios has a display limitation of 65535 Mbytes but drives larger than this work. There are limitations with pre-XP bioses and FAT 32 formats; with XP and using NTFS formatting you shouldn't have a problem. Others will advise you to create multiple partitions and stick with FAT32 so that recovery from a boot floppy can be achieved.dib_dab2003
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Posted May 26th, 2005 06:00
"Hmmm. The GX1 in-built IDE controller ONLY support drives to 127 Gbytes at their full capacity, so I would stick with a 120Gbyte drive maximum. Note that the bios has a display limitation of 65535 Mbytes but drives larger than this work. There are limitations with pre-XP bioses and FAT 32 formats; with XP and using NTFS formatting you shouldn't have a problem. Others will advise you to create multiple partitions and stick with FAT32 so that recovery from a boot floppy can be achieved."im going to install a 160gig drive,i`ll be using NTFS file system and im going to install xp on it with a 50 gig partition.thanx yet again for your help !:smileyhappy:dib_dab........peterfelgate_ce40d3
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Posted May 26th, 2005 10:00
Just to say, no matter how you partition the drive, you will only get 127 Gbytes total out of it.......
acidshadow
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Posted May 25th, 2005 13:00
There shouldn't be a whole lot of limitations. Is a a slimline model or a tower?
You can pretty much go with any size hard drive that you desire. Just be sure to update the bios before instlalling the new dirve to be sure because sometimes older bios versions might not support larger drives, but it shouldn't be a problem.
Are you looking at another drive for extra storage or are you going to replace the old drive entirely?