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#1
Upgrades and Accessories / Re: Max size HD Upgrade?
December 12, 2009, 07:24:37 PM
I am just trying WD Scrorpio Blue 320GB PATA. No success so far. Cannot figure it out.

My previous installation with Hitachi 160 GB (two years ago) was a charm so I expected no evil.

Wrong.

So far I keep cycling between "loading files" and rebooting endlessly. No options out...keep giving me choice to format (which I did, no problem), choosing partition and installing OS ....and after "loading files" it informs me everything is OK and would continue after reboot. Wrong. After reboot it either asks for "strike any key" and do the same again...or announces to me "cd reading error" if I do not press the keyboard with vicious cycle repeating.

I already read several treads but no help so far. Slipstreaming to integrate sp2 and create bootable xp sp2 cd was useless. (I had sp1 integrated already and sp1 is all it takes to recognize larger than 136GB drives).

The safest will be to return the hdd before time runs out.

Better suggestions? Is there "block in bios" or some other trickery???

Any suggestion greatly appreciated.
#2
You nailed it down.

I will never ever buy a laptot with less screen resolution than (W)SXGA after my stay with nx7000. I did not see any display resolution upgrade option in dv5000t, which makes me disregard otherwise impressive array of features.

....the one upgrade that would sell me on a new machine would be some further advancement on NTB displays so that one day it could be less strain on the eyes. Even with SXGA you see a great difference between reading whole day from the screen and reading the same amount from a printed copy. Screens are unnatural and tirering. Got back happily even to B/W if you had the same contrast ratio as carbon paper (and high resolution), strange as it sounds.
#3
My poor boys,

I am getting nostalgic about the forum...it is strange, isn't it - there is one piece of hardware that knits together a community of more or less dedicated supporters to keep it running. ...And as the hardware is aging and slowly passes into obsolescence so also the community declines.

I am returning to the forum

I am happy you are trying to keep the forum running.

(On the practical side: I came here to refresh my info I knew was here about changing HDD...to find a lot of it has been effaced....what a pity and devastation because some stupid hacker fool needed to boost his EGO!...just like Milosevic in Serbia)