Fujitsu Amilo Pro
Fujitsu Amilo Pro
Largest HDD upgrade for a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Pro ?
Its a 5 year old Celeron laptop with 30GB hard drive running Win XP (Amillo Pro V2010).
I want to keep using this as a secondary PC as my Win 7 machine does not want to run many old applications, but I want to fit it with a decent sized drive.
Read somwhere that 128 GB was as big as this machine would go / address, but I can't see why I couldnt go to at least 160 GB ...
The current drive is a Toshiba with an IDE (P-ATA) connector.
... the current drive is compromised with malware, so I would need to re-format it anyway, and as its going to be a "low security machine" I use for downloading and the dodgier sites think a bit more internal HDD space could be useful.
... also think there's a limit as to how big a 2.5 inch IDE "legacy" drive you can buy ?
You are partially correct
By default, the original release version of Windows XP Home Edition and of Windows XP Professional did not have 48-bit LBA support (and access HDD>137GB). Your computer must have the following requirements to use 48-bit LBA ATAPI support:
* 48-bit LBA-compatible BIOS.
* 137-GB hard disk or larger.
* You must have Windows XP SP1 installed.
If you don't have the above you won't be able to access HDD >137 GB. You will need to know which version of windows XP is on your recovery disk.
You may be able to do an install and then upgrade to SP1 and if your BIOS supports 48bit LBA you may be able to access the whole of the drive after that. You would then have to add a new volume to utilise the existing space or resize the original windows partition to fill the drive with one of the many partition managers available such as bootitng
HTH
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