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    Compaq presario 2570us HDD upgrade problem

    Discussion in 'HP' started by WiZARD7, Mar 21, 2009.

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    Hi!

    My father has a 6 yrs old Presario 2570us. I want to upgrade it a little, to make it faster. It had an old fujitsu hdd (4200 rpm, 18mb/s average read - hdtach), I thought I can easily buy a new, faster one. I bought a Samsung HM160HC winchester.
    The problem: in windows xp it works only in PIO mode, and I can't change it to DMA. (I tried "everything")

    is there any solution, or it is incompatible with this hdd? what should I do?
     
    WiZARD7, Mar 21, 2009
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