I have a question to you guys with really big Hard Drives

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StormRider

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CompUSA is having a sale on 250 gig HDs and I'm wondering how they work with most motherboards. When I went to MSI's website they said the biggest HD the K7N2 Delta-L can handle is 160 gigs. So, how would it work with a 250 gig HD?

Do you have to partition it into 2 partitions? Is that how it works?
 
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TechnoKid

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I thought most of the big hard drives out there like 250+GB had to come with their own card because the motherboard bios wouldn't recognize the full capacity?
 
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StormRider

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I didn't see any mention of a Ultra ATA card included in the box that I saw (they were Maxtors)
 
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ElFenix

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my 200 gig works on my board just fine, a7n8x, regular nforce2 board.
 
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EMPshockwave82

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older bios wouldnt read drives over a certain size... well they would read them but only a portion of the actual drive

with most newer motherboards this isnt a problem
 
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TerryMathews

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The (most recent) barrier was at 128GB. That's real capacity, not HD marketing speak. HD marketing speak, it's probably around 140GB.

Long story short: If your board will work with a 160, it will work with a 250.
 
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ELopes580

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i have 2 WD 250GB SE drives on a 875P mobo w/ ICR5. BIOS finds 'em no prob. just need SP1 for XP or SP3/4 for Win2K from what i understand
 
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andylawcc

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Originally posted by: KK
Originally posted by: virtuamike
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hahahah....hte title cracks me up...:p
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Please don't encourage him.
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I feel gyped, where are the pics?
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Only pics you'll be getting are of his floppy
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I'm sure it won't be a 5 1/4" floppy.

KK
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or a 4mb Compact Flash.
 
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Ness

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If it doesn't work, I'm sure someone on the FS/FT will trade you for two smaller drives.
 
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