My Sony Viao PCV-RX360DS (UC28554430) came with an Asustek CUSL-LV
Rev. 1.xx mobo and a 40 GB ST340823A Rev. 3.07 hard drive.

Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard
drive with a 250 GB WDC WD2500BB 55GUC0 Rev. 08.02D08 hard drive?

Thanks!

Jimmy Roberts
jkr1963.at.verizon.dot.net

Jimmy Roberts wrote:

> My Sony Viao PCV-RX360DS (UC28554430) came with an Asustek CUSL-LV
> Rev. 1.xx mobo and a 40 GB ST340823A Rev. 3.07 hard drive.

> Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard drive
> with a 250 GB WDC WD2500BB 55GUC0 Rev. 08.02D08 hard drive?

Any IDE drive will work fine.

This ancient a motherboard can easily have BIOS issues with drives > 128GB

--
Maxim S. Shatskih
Windows DDK MVP
maxim@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com

"Jimmy Roberts" <jkr1963@verizon.net> wrote in message news:eda2eb05-2610-423e-8e63-93d9825f0819@g1g2000vbr.googlegroups.com...
> My Sony Viao PCV-RX360DS (UC28554430) came with an Asustek CUSL-LV
> Rev. 1.xx mobo and a 40 GB ST340823A Rev. 3.07 hard drive.
>
> Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard
> drive with a 250 GB WDC WD2500BB 55GUC0 Rev. 08.02D08 hard drive?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jimmy Roberts
> jkr1963.at.verizon.dot.net

Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:

> This ancient a motherboard can easily have BIOS issues with drives > 128GB

That one doesnt.

> Jimmy Roberts <jkr1963@verizon.net> wrote

>> My Sony Viao PCV-RX360DS (UC28554430) came with an Asustek CUSL-LV
>> Rev. 1.xx mobo and a 40 GB ST340823A Rev. 3.07 hard drive.

>> Can anyone comment on the compatibility of replacing the OEM hard
>> drive with a 250 GB WDC WD2500BB 55GUC0 Rev. 08.02D08 hard drive?

On Sep 26, 5:43*pm, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....******.com> wrote:
> Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:
> > This ancient a motherboard can easily have BIOS issues with drives > 128GB
>
> That one doesnt.
>

I currently have the 250-GB WD2500BB hard drive installed as a slave
and Windows XP recognizes all 250 GB...

Should that give me a greater sense of security?

JKR

Jimmy Roberts wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed....******.com> wrote
>> Maxim S. Shatskih wrote

>>> This ancient a motherboard can easily have BIOS issues with drives > 128GB

>> That one doesnt.

> I currently have the 250-GB WD2500BB hard drive installed
> as a slave and Windows XP recognizes all 250 GB...

> Should that give me a greater sense of security?

Yes.

>Should that give me a greater sense of security?

Surely yes.

--
Maxim S. Shatskih
Windows DDK MVP
maxim@storagecraft.com
http://www.storagecraft.com

Probably; I'd say definitely if you are using more than 137GB
successfully. There are, however, situations in which the drive will be
"recognized" as more than 137GB, but when you start writing to it
(beyond the 137GB point), it "wraps" and destroys the drive (not
physically, but the contents are lost). The simple fact that it sees
the drive and reports it's full [but, so far, not actually used or
accessed] capacity is not absolutely definitive. But it is a good sign.


Jimmy Roberts wrote:
> On Sep 26, 5:43 pm, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....******.com> wrote:
>> Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:
>>> This ancient a motherboard can easily have BIOS issues with drives > 128GB
>> That one doesnt.
>>
>
> I currently have the 250-GB WD2500BB hard drive installed as a slave
> and Windows XP recognizes all 250 GB...
>
> Should that give me a greater sense of security?
>
> JKR

On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:43:57 +0400, "Maxim S. Shatskih"
<maxim@storagecraft.com.no.spam> put finger to keyboard and composed:

> This ancient a motherboard can easily have BIOS issues with drives > 128GB

You can test for 48-bit LBA support in your BIOS using IDEINFO/HDINFO:
http://www.48bitlba.com/hdinfodetails.htm

- Franc Zabkar
--
Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:07:58 -0700 (PDT), Jimmy Roberts
<jkr1963@verizon.net> wrote:

>On Sep 26, 5:43*pm, "Rod Speed" <rod.speed....******.com> wrote:
>> Maxim S. Shatskih wrote:
>> > This ancient a motherboard can easily have BIOS issues with drives > 128GB
>>
>> That one doesnt.
>>
>
>I currently have the 250-GB WD2500BB hard drive installed as a slave
>and Windows XP recognizes all 250 GB...
>
>Should that give me a greater sense of security?

The bios is only used is to boot Windows XP, so you cannot draw any
conclusion about the bios from a running Windows XP. In other words,
Windows XP can support 48-bit LBA even if the bios does not.
Conversely, pre-SP1 Windows XP supports only 28-bit LBA even if the
bios supports 48-bit LBA.

>
>JKR