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Originally Posted by ddouglass
Gentlemen, when you "clone" a drive it creates an exact duplicate of the original drive down to the exact size. It does not have anything to do with Bios or the hard drive manufacturer.
Walt, first if you want to upgrade your Bios you should always go through your computer mfg and not through the company making the Bios. However I don't think this will help.
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Dale,
I cloned my old 80gb drive on to an external 160gb seagate usb drive. Then I installed the new wd320gb drive. I did a new xp install with the new 320gb drive. When the install was complete the drive was only 137gb. I then installed the cloned drive on to the new drive. I still had 137gb. According to Microsoft I must have SP1 or greater to recognize more than 137gb. They also claim that even with the SP1 or later, the bios must be a 48 bit bios or it will still only show a max of 137gb. Emachine doesn't offer a 48 bit bios for my machine and I have their latest upgrade. I have found a new upgrade for my bios through a third party through an update subscription but so far I haven't had the nerve to try the flash. They give all kinds of disclaimers and it kind of made me a little nervous. They have provided the bios, a winflash program and a dos flash program. Tomorrow morning when I feel fresh I may read everything they provided and give it a shot. At this point it seems to be my only choice other than carry around external drives and if it screws up my computer I guess it may be time to buy a new one. I'll post back the result.
Thanks,
Walt