Hard drive too large?

[oldun]

I have a HP Pavilion TX1340 laptop running Vista Home Premium.

The laptop came with a 120GB hard drive and I would now like to replace it with a new 320GB hard drive which I have fitted in a USB2.0 caddy and which, after much difficulty, I have managed to initialize and format.

I have been told by HP that the laptop will only recognise hard drives up to 250GB.

If I partition the hard drive with a 250B partition plus another partition occupying the remainding space will this work OK?

 

[Fumz]

Unfortunately, your only option is to send me the hard drive as it will not work for you. Sad but true; PM me for my home address.




just kidding... it will work fine. If it only sees the first 250, then partition and use that; format the rest in Windows.

 

[geezer10]

hi oldun,

the 250G limit probably only applies to the internal drive, your usb caddy now controls the new drive so you should be able to use all 320 in 1 partition.

but it sounds like you currently have 1 partition as you have already formatted.

just plug it in and see if windows recognises the drive if so, you're done.

or just send the drive to fumz

cheers

 

[johngalt]

Geezer,

it sounds more like oldun wants to remove the 320 from the USB caddy and put it *physically* in the laptop - thereby running into that 250 GB Limit.

Oldun, if the BIOS can only access 250 GB you may not be able to see the rest of it in Vista - so be prepared.