Hard Drive Size in CF-28

This is probably here somewhere but I haven't been able to find it yet.

What is the max hard drive size that CF-28 can take??

I have a 30gb in mine and bought a Samsung 160gb to replace it. I don't have a CD/DVD on the 28 so took out the old drive and put it in my desktop and cloned it with Ghost 9. When I put the 160 in the toughbook it just goes to the second XP screen (with the dark bars at the top and bottom) and hangs there. I see intermittant disk activity but it never gets off that screen. Same thing if I boot in safe mode.

When I look at the bios setup screen it says it thinks the drive is 137gb. That makes me think it won't see a large hard drive (say over 80-100gb???).

I'm on the V12 bios and it looks like V13 only fixed a battery charging problem. ? ?

Any suggestions would be appreciated. I've ordered an 80gb to see how that works.

thanks,

Harry

 

I was running a 160gb seagate momentus 5400 drive for a while.. decided to replace it with a hitachi 100gb 7200 though!

 

That sounds about right. Drives never format to advertised capacity. Advertised capacity is assuming 1000KB = 1MB, which it does not (It's really 1024KB = 1MB).

This means 137GB sounds about right. Both of my 500GB drives in my desktop register as 465GB if it makes you feel better.

 

Google "max hard drive size XP" and if you don't have SP2 or have win 2000 you need to enable large disks. there is a limit about 136 GB but I have win 2K on a cf-28M and now it does 160 GB drive

 

I install a WD Scorpio 250GB with no problems bios shows it at 137GB but windows see the rest of the drive 232GB. The strap on my bag came loose as I was putting it on my back. The bag and toughbook power Cord hit the floor with a resounding thug all worked when I opened the lid.

Here's a link to the drives spec's

http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=346