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    Vaio S-360 BIOS problem....Installed new HD

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by globochem, May 5, 2008.

  1. globochem

    globochem Newbie

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    I replaced my old 80GB Harddrive with a 160GB harddrive and cannot get the S-360 to recognize all of the drive's capacity. It seems that the BIOS does not support anything larger than 137GB drives. Is this in fact true or am I overlooking some BIOS setting? Also, are there any BIOS upgrades that address this problem (LBA)?

    Thank you
     
    globochem, May 5, 2008
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  2. ngvuanh

    ngvuanh Notebook Deity

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    Let try upgrade your BIOS to R0072G4 if you dont have it.
     
    ngvuanh, May 5, 2008
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  3. WILLY S

    WILLY S I was saying boo-urns

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    It's normal i think.

    My 250gb only shows as 223gb.

    All hard drives appear as less due to the computer counting the space in binary.

    Here's an article i found explaning it better :)
     
    WILLY S, May 7, 2008
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