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Well, the computer is so old that you may not be able to upgrade the hard drive very much. If you do decide to you will need a PATA hard drive and I would suggest not going over 100GB since I don't know what operating system and service pack you are using, as older operating systems can only see so much hard drive disk space.
Manufacturers rate the capacity of their hard drives in an unformatted state. When you format a hard drive the actual capacity drops approx. 10% and in this case it leaves you with 147Gb capacity.
Sir,
you are required to follow these steps below.
1 turn on your computer with HDD in it
2 Enter in to the BIOS by pressing F2 button
3 there entering in BIOS look for "Drive Configuration" it might be writen in some other words
4 there you will find ..."Hard drive SMART capacity" as enabled in box above.
5 Enter that box and Disable it.
6 Push F10 and reboot the machien.
Now you will be able to format , install etc on your hard drive hopefully
You can replace it with a larger one, just make sure you buy the proper hard drive. If its and IDE hard drive, buy and IDE hard drive, if its an SATA Hard drive, buy an SATA Hard drive. also make sure after you install the new hard drive that you use the operating system cd to format the drive and to install the operating system.
The hard drive that is installed in the V20 laptop is a 30 Gb IDE capacity hard drive.
The smallest IDE hard drive that you can purchase today is in the order of 80 to 100 Gb capacity. The BIOS in the V20 may not be able to support a hard drive this large.
If you install a hard drive of this capacity the BIOS may not detect it or it won't allow you to access the full capacity of the hard drive.
able to find a spec sheet on your specific washer, but i can tell you that you have a whirlpool made kenmore washer. and at 18 yrs ago they have only gotten larger, youd be hard pressed (unles you bought a apt sized machine or a laundry center) to get a smaller capacity machine. new machines are huge in comparison to the oldies
Toshiba is rather secretive with their documentation. It is hard to find. Google TOSHIBA SATELLITE A10 SERVICE MANUAL and check the available offerings.
You now have a 5400 RPM, ATA 100 drive. You should not have any drive size restrictions. Shops are advertising many large drives as compatible.
I suggest that you purchase only a 7200 RPM drive. The faster speed will perk your machine right up.
I have not worked on Toshiba machines but suggest you have all restore disks and passwords at hand.
What type of Computer are you installing this 80g drive on? How old is it? I need to know some specifics, because in older machines the BIOS are not setup to recognize large capacity HD, in addition you may have recieved a bad Drive. Please advise! I may have an answer for you!
Pre 1999 machine with Award BIOS?
If so, this is because when they designed your computer, they didn't imagine 80 GB drives were a realistic prospect.
Suggest you download DiskWizard from Seagate's website and use that instead of Windows to format the disk. Hopefully this will be enough to let you see the full capacity of the disk.
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