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Thread: Urgent help, WD MyBook 500Gb

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    BawA's Avatar FST Pioneer BT Rep: +1
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    hey
    i just bought an WD Mybook 500Gb, but it wont installed, there are few articals ive checked and it says some system dont support HardDisk;s bigger then 137Gb
    how can i know that my system supports or not.
    so far i couldnt find the drive on my system, in thoes articals it says i must configure EIDE on bios.

    Edit:
    nvm, just needed a reboot
    Last edited by BawA; 09-29-2006 at 09:11 AM.


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    Earlier versions of Win XP did not support HDDs larger than 137GB, the only way to install larger HDDs is to upgrade to SP2.
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