200Gig drive on HP 6000 series

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I have an older HP 6000 series desktop. Can I put a 200gig drive in it?
What if I partition it to smaller drives.

I am thinking I am limited to 120Gig.

Danny Deger

 

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On the seventh day, Danny Deger wrote...

> I have an older HP 6000 series desktop. Can I put a 200gig drive in it?
> What if I partition it to smaller drives.
>
> I am thinking I am limited to 120Gig.

Hello, Danny,

I am no expert in the 6000 series, however, even if your system is limited
to 128gigs, you can still add the 200gigs drive if you don't use it as
system drive. Simply set it to "no detect" or "none" in the system's BIOS
and you're set.

If OTOH you want to boot from the 200gigs drive, you have to check for a
recent BIOS from HP or use a PCI add-on card like Promise Ultra100/133.

HTH

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Christian Dürrhauer <cduerr@geog.fu-berlin.de> wrote in message news:<14ngptmfr24wo$.dlg@73137.user.dfncis.de>...
> On the seventh day, Danny Deger wrote...
> > > I have an older HP 6000 series desktop. Can I put a 200gig drive in it?
> > What if I partition it to smaller drives.
> >
> > I am thinking I am limited to 120Gig.
> > Hello, Danny,
> > I am no expert in the 6000 series, however, even if your system is limited
> to 128gigs, you can still add the 200gigs drive if you don't use it as
> system drive. Simply set it to "no detect" or "none" in the system's BIOS
> and you're set.
> > If OTOH you want to boot from the 200gigs drive, you have to check for a
> recent BIOS from HP or use a PCI add-on card like Promise Ultra100/133.
> > HTH

Thanks, I might give the 200 a try. I don't want to boot from it so
it might work. But, it might not because I thought a computer of this
age had a problem with the IDE interface and this problem couldn't be
resolved with a BIOS upgrade. An PCI IDE card would do the trick.