Just replaced my Seagate 80MB drive with a WD1TB in my Dell Precision 390 workstation. I can believe WinXP is actually seeing the whole volume. Now formatting.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz see you tomorrow.
Win Xp and a 1TB drive.
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That's always been more of a BIOS limitation, but glad it's working.
Originally Posted By: Bottom_Feeder
That's always been more of a BIOS limitation, but glad it's working.
Funny I put a 500GB Seagate on it and it wouldn't recognize it. Sent that drive back and went to Best Buy where the geek squad gave me a Western Digital 1TB drive and said it would work. He was right.
He said the WD drives have fewer compatibility issues.
That's always been more of a BIOS limitation, but glad it's working.
Funny I put a 500GB Seagate on it and it wouldn't recognize it. Sent that drive back and went to Best Buy where the geek squad gave me a Western Digital 1TB drive and said it would work. He was right.
He said the WD drives have fewer compatibility issues.
That may be true. You my be putting a SATA 3/6.0 drive connected to a SATA 1/1.5 motherboard controller. It may not like it. It's all supposed to be backward compatible but not always.
Wow with Microsoft no longer supporting XP I'm surprised you didn't pick up a cheap copy of Win 7 or 8.
I'm running my Dell Vostro 1000 laptop with XP as I type this now. I have no problem with XP and I don't think I will update to Window 7 or 8 anytime soon.
Originally Posted By: Bottom_Feeder
That's always been more of a BIOS limitation, but glad it's working.
Wasn't there an issue with the original XP release not supporting drives over 128GB (which didn't exist at the time it was released)? I seem to remember it was fixed in one of the service packs.
That's always been more of a BIOS limitation, but glad it's working.
Wasn't there an issue with the original XP release not supporting drives over 128GB (which didn't exist at the time it was released)? I seem to remember it was fixed in one of the service packs.
Originally Posted By: Bottom_Feeder
That may be true. You my be putting a SATA 3/6.0 drive connected to a SATA 1/1.5 motherboard controller. It may not like it. It's all supposed to be backward compatible but not always.
It s SATA 3.0 motherboard and 6.0 drive but it is backwards compatible and apparently WD has the firmware already on the drive. Plus I went to the Dell site and found a firmware update from 2014 for WD drives and it's running fine now.
That may be true. You my be putting a SATA 3/6.0 drive connected to a SATA 1/1.5 motherboard controller. It may not like it. It's all supposed to be backward compatible but not always.
It s SATA 3.0 motherboard and 6.0 drive but it is backwards compatible and apparently WD has the firmware already on the drive. Plus I went to the Dell site and found a firmware update from 2014 for WD drives and it's running fine now.
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Wow with Microsoft no longer supporting XP I'm surprised you didn't pick up a cheap copy of Win 7 or 8.
My server is running Win2000 Server & SQL so the compatibility of XP fits better than Win7. I need to squeeze another 2 years out of this system until I move the office and then it all hits the scrap heap and my data gets converted to an ASP which is the company that wrote my database software in 1997. They will host everything for me for $50/month. No more servers or email clients just a new system with 10GB of ram and I am flying. Plus then I can ditch my vpn and go 100% virtual office from Florida.
Sittin on the beach....doin business Yeah baby
Wow with Microsoft no longer supporting XP I'm surprised you didn't pick up a cheap copy of Win 7 or 8.
My server is running Win2000 Server & SQL so the compatibility of XP fits better than Win7. I need to squeeze another 2 years out of this system until I move the office and then it all hits the scrap heap and my data gets converted to an ASP which is the company that wrote my database software in 1997. They will host everything for me for $50/month. No more servers or email clients just a new system with 10GB of ram and I am flying. Plus then I can ditch my vpn and go 100% virtual office from Florida.
Sittin on the beach....doin business Yeah baby
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Originally Posted By: Bottom_Feeder
That's always been more of a BIOS limitation, but glad it's working.
Wasn't there an issue with the original XP release not supporting drives over 128GB (which didn't exist at the time it was released)? I seem to remember it was fixed in one of the service packs.
The computer I am typing this on has a 500GB WD drive and XP/
Originally Posted By: Bottom_Feeder
That's always been more of a BIOS limitation, but glad it's working.
Wasn't there an issue with the original XP release not supporting drives over 128GB (which didn't exist at the time it was released)? I seem to remember it was fixed in one of the service packs.
The computer I am typing this on has a 500GB WD drive and XP/
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