Hard Drive Upgrade

[WaltR]

Well I flashed my bios with the upgrade through the third party vendor. All went well but I was a little nervous. The bad news is that it is still a 32 bit bios so it still only recognizes my wd320gb as 137gb. The vendor claims there are no newer bios updates that will work with my computer so I guess I'm out of luck. I called Western Digital Tech support yesterday and the tech advised that without a 48 bit bios xp won't recognize larger than 137gb drive. Same thing Microsoft claimed. One would thing that Western Digital would post minimum requirements for a particulare drive on their web but I guess they don't care. Where I am confused is why will my computer recognize large drives through a usb connection. Maybe it has something to do with a bootable drive??? Also, it seems when I clone my drive to a Seagate 160gb drive, the Seagate won't boot from the usb port. I guess to get it to boot it has to be the c: drive. Well, it looks like I am getting close to a new computer. I've looked at few and it seems they don't use an s video out anymore. Even MTU's rugged laptop uses a vga out which means going through an external converter for the singer's display if I understand correctly. It only has 2 gb ram and I thought Windows 7 with Hoster especially needed 4gb. Very expensive to me.



Walt