topic SR11K hard disk upgarde recognition problem in PCs & Accessories https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/sr11k-hard-disk-upgarde-recognition-problem/m-p/25135#M90714 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I bought an IBM 100GB drive to upgrade the 10GB already installed in the notebook. Unfortunately I said to partition the drive using the recovery CD - which appears to only recognise the first 10GB....<BR /><BR />I have upgraded the Bios to the most recent available - but its not helped. Its not a LBA problem - its on in the bios.<BR /><BR />Does anyone have any suggestions how I go about upgrading the laptop?<BR /><BR />My thoughts are to reformat the drive by installing it into a PC (running XP) - I have an adpator - but thereafter waht should I do?<BR /><BR />Do I need an external piece of software?<BR /><BR />Any help gratefully received...<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:41:19 GMT punkieys 2006-08-13T21:41:19Z SR11K hard disk upgarde recognition problem https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/sr11k-hard-disk-upgarde-recognition-problem/m-p/25135#M90714 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I bought an IBM 100GB drive to upgrade the 10GB already installed in the notebook. Unfortunately I said to partition the drive using the recovery CD - which appears to only recognise the first 10GB....<BR /><BR />I have upgraded the Bios to the most recent available - but its not helped. Its not a LBA problem - its on in the bios.<BR /><BR />Does anyone have any suggestions how I go about upgrading the laptop?<BR /><BR />My thoughts are to reformat the drive by installing it into a PC (running XP) - I have an adpator - but thereafter waht should I do?<BR /><BR />Do I need an external piece of software?<BR /><BR />Any help gratefully received...<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:41:19 GMT https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/sr11k-hard-disk-upgarde-recognition-problem/m-p/25135#M90714 punkieys 2006-08-13T21:41:19Z Re: SR11K hard disk upgarde recognition problem https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/sr11k-hard-disk-upgarde-recognition-problem/m-p/25136#M90715 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi punkieys,<BR /><BR />Older computers do have a BIOS limit for the size of hard drive that will be recognized.<BR /><BR />You could try the route of formatting the drive in another PC but I am not sure that this will provide the desired result. If not then I suggest that you try a 40 Gig drive.<BR /></P></BODY></HTML> Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:52:53 GMT https://community.sony.lt/t5/pcs-accessories/sr11k-hard-disk-upgarde-recognition-problem/m-p/25136#M90715 rich912 2006-08-13T21:52:53Z