Motherboard Hard disk Capacity
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Posted by DJT on June 2, 2007, 3:26 am
Please log in for more thread options GA-7VT600 motherboard with KT600 Chipset. I am considering updating the hard disk in this unit but I cannot find what is the largest Hard size that this will recognise. I have looked on the Gigabyte website but I can not find in info opther than Bios updates which do not mention Hard disk Size I tried to install a 320Gb Hard disk and either I jumered it wrong or it was too big, as it was not recogised. I checked the jumpers and they appeared correct, so I suspect HD was too big. I know I can install a program to fix the problem or get a new Hard disk controller, but I would like to find out what limits to disk size exists. Does anyone know where I can find out the maximum Hard disk size for this motherboard Thanks DJT | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Pet Parker on June 2, 2007, 7:31 am
Please log in for more thread options http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013&Product=winxp your might need XP SP2 disc scroll down half way. | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Don Phillipson on June 2, 2007, 8:43 am
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> I currently have a AMd Althon XP 2500+ computer with a Gigabyte
> GA-7VT600 motherboard with KT600 Chipset. > I am considering updating the hard disk in this unit but I cannot find > what is the largest Hard size that this will recognise. If you want to add more drive space than the BIOS is configured for, remember that drives connected as USB devices have no such limit. (My Win98 system BIOS cannot handle drives larger than 130 Gb: but my 230 Gb ext drive is OK because it appears merely as a USB device.) > I tried to install a 320Gb Hard disk and either I jumered it wrong or
> it was too big, as it was not recogised. I checked the jumpers and > they appeared correct, so I suspect HD was too big. Essential information is missing here. Unless your 320 Gb drive was pre-formatted, we need to know what partition app. you used (in order to create a logical drive visible to Windows.) -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by DJT on June 2, 2007, 10:29 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Sat, 2 Jun 2007 08:43:17 -0400, "Don Phillipson"
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>> I currently have a AMd Althon XP 2500+ computer with a Gigabyte
>> GA-7VT600 motherboard with KT600 Chipset. >> I am considering updating the hard disk in this unit but I cannot find >> what is the largest Hard size that this will recognise. >
Thanks for that. I have the HD installed in a USB case and it is OK,
>If you want to add more drive space than the BIOS >is configured for, remember that drives connected as >USB devices have no such limit. (My Win98 system >BIOS cannot handle drives larger than 130 Gb: but >my 230 Gb ext drive is OK because it appears >merely as a USB device.) but I am looking to find out what the maximum size is. From your comments it sounds like I could install a 120gb drive OK >> I tried to install a 320Gb Hard disk and either I jumered it wrong or
>> it was too big, as it was not recogised. I checked the jumpers and >> they appeared correct, so I suspect HD was too big. >
It was not recognised in the BIOS, so did not show up in windows
>Essential information is missing here. Unless your >320 Gb drive was pre-formatted, we need to know >what partition app. you used (in order to create a >logical drive visible to Windows.) storage Manager to enable partitioning. It actually was formatted as when I installed the 320gb in the USB case it did not need to be formatted Thanks DJT | |||||||||||||||||||
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Posted by kony on June 2, 2007, 10:05 pm
Please log in for more thread options On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 17:26:31 +1000, DJT
>I currently have a AMd Althon XP 2500+ computer with a Gigabyte
>GA-7VT600 motherboard with KT600 Chipset. > >I am considering updating the hard disk in this unit but I cannot find >what is the largest Hard size that this will recognise. >I have looked on the Gigabyte website but I can not find in info >opther than Bios updates which do not mention Hard disk Size > >I tried to install a 320Gb Hard disk and either I jumered it wrong or >it was too big, as it was not recogised. I checked the jumpers and >they appeared correct, so I suspect HD was too big. > >I know I can install a program to fix the problem or get a new Hard >disk controller, but I would like to find out what limits to disk size >exists. > >Does anyone know where I can find out the maximum Hard disk size for >this motherboard > > >Thanks > >DJT That board should natively support 320GB and beyond since it has 48bit LBA support. Recheck your jumpers and try another data cable. I checked Gigabyte's bios notes and didn't see any mention of HDD issues, but if you can confirm positively that everything else works properly (data, cables and jumpering), you might also update the bios if it weren't at the last revision released, just in case they fixed some bug but didn't make mention of it in the notes... just be sure the system is stable beforehand and I would disconnect the drive before trying it, just in case there is some problem with it. It is possible a small % of drives are faulty as received, if you have another system in which to try it, do so. Where was it not recognized? There is "probably" a capacity limit jumper on the drive which would limit it to 32GB. As a test _only_ you could temporarily jumper it to 32GB to see if it showed up, but do not then proceed to use it, jumper back to normal mode first. Also some jumper settings charts are awkwardly diagrammed, perhaps they have it poorly illustrated and this led to a misjumpered setting. You didn't even tell us what brand/model of drive or whether it's PATA or SATA interface, and if SATA, if that controller is enabled in the bios (I would only assume PATA was enabled in bios already). | |||||||||||||||||||
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> GA-7VT600 motherboard with KT600 Chipset.
>
> I am considering updating the hard disk in this unit but I cannot find
> what is the largest Hard size that this will recognise.
> I have looked on the Gigabyte website but I can not find in info
> opther than Bios updates which do not mention Hard disk Size
>
> I tried to install a 320Gb Hard disk and either I jumered it wrong or
> it was too big, as it was not recogised. I checked the jumpers and
> they appeared correct, so I suspect HD was too big.
>
> I know I can install a program to fix the problem or get a new Hard
> disk controller, but I would like to find out what limits to disk size
> exists.
>
> Does anyone know where I can find out the maximum Hard disk size for
> this motherboard
>
>
> Thanks
>
> DJT