Presario V2000 max hard drive size

[bob]

Ihave a Compaq Presario V2000 with an 80gb WD ATA drive. I'd like to max
the hard drive size but cannot out how large a hard drive the bios will
support. Here are the specs for the bios via dmidecode --type 0:


Vendor: Hewlett-Packard
Version: F.27
Release Date: 08/30/2006
Address: 0xE5BF0
Runtime Size: 107536 bytes
ROM Size: 512 kB
Characteristics:
PCI is supported
PC Card (PCMCIA) is supported
PNP is supported
APM is supported
BIOS is upgradeable
BIOS shadowing is allowed
ESCD support is available
Boot from CD is supported
Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
Serial services are supported (int 14h)
Printer services are supported (int 17h)
CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
ACPI is supported
USB legacy is supported

Any/all help is much appreciated.

Thanks

 

[blues2use]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:54:02 +0000, bob wrote:

> Ihave a Compaq Presario V2000 with an 80gb WD ATA drive. I'd like to max
> the hard drive size but cannot out how large a hard drive the bios will
> support. Here are the specs for the bios via dmidecode --type 0:
>
>
> Vendor: Hewlett-Packard
> Version: F.27
> Release Date: 08/30/2006
> Address: 0xE5BF0
> Runtime Size: 107536 bytes
> ROM Size: 512 kB
> Characteristics:
> PCI is supported
> PC Card (PCMCIA) is supported
> PNP is supported
> APM is supported
> BIOS is upgradeable
> BIOS shadowing is allowed
> ESCD support is available
> Boot from CD is supported
> Print screen service is supported (int 5h) 8042 keyboard
services are
> supported (int 9h) Serial services are supported (int
14h) Printer
> services are supported (int 17h) CGA/mono video services
are supported
> (int 10h) ACPI is supported
> USB legacy is supported
>
> Any/all help is much appreciated.
>
> Thanks

BTW, I have updated to the most recent bios available which is F27 dated
2006. There is nothing newer available on the HP/Compaq site for this
model.

Thanks

 

[Dianci Maichong]

On 26 Jul 2010 18:54:02 GMT, bob <blues2use@nospam.com> wrote:

>Ihave a Compaq Presario V2000 with an 80gb WD ATA drive. I'd like to max
>the hard drive size but cannot out how large a hard drive the bios will
>support. Here are the specs for the bios via dmidecode --type 0:
>
>
>Vendor: Hewlett-Packard
> Version: F.27
> Release Date: 08/30/2006
> Address: 0xE5BF0
> Runtime Size: 107536 bytes
> ROM Size: 512 kB
> Characteristics:
> PCI is supported
> PC Card (PCMCIA) is supported
> PNP is supported
> APM is supported
> BIOS is upgradeable
> BIOS shadowing is allowed
> ESCD support is available
> Boot from CD is supported
> Print screen service is supported (int 5h)
> 8042 keyboard services are supported (int 9h)
> Serial services are supported (int 14h)
> Printer services are supported (int 17h)
> CGA/mono video services are supported (int 10h)
> ACPI is supported
> USB legacy is supported
>
>Any/all help is much appreciated.
>
>Thanks


IIRC, 160GB and certainly no larger.

 

[blues2use]

On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:22:52 +1000, Dianci Maichong wrote:

> On 26 Jul 2010 18:54:02 GMT, bob <blues2use@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>>Ihave a Compaq Presario V2000 with an 80gb WD ATA drive. I'd like to max
>>the hard drive size but cannot out how large a hard drive the bios will
>>support. Here are the specs for the bios via dmidecode --type 0:
>>
>>
>>Vendor: Hewlett-Packard
>> Version: F.27
>> Release Date: 08/30/2006
>> Address: 0xE5BF0
>> Runtime Size: 107536 bytes
>> ROM Size: 512 kB
>> Characteristics:
>> PCI is supported
>> PC Card (PCMCIA) is supported
>> PNP is supported
>> APM is supported
>> BIOS is upgradeable
>> BIOS shadowing is allowed
>> ESCD support is available
>> Boot from CD is supported
>> Print screen service is supported (int 5h) 8042 keyboard
services are
>> supported (int 9h) Serial services are supported (int
14h) Printer
>> services are supported (int 17h) CGA/mono video services
are supported
>> (int 10h) ACPI is supported
>> USB legacy is supported
>>
>>Any/all help is much appreciated.
>>
>>Thanks
>
>
> IIRC, 160GB and certainly no larger.

Thanks for the reply. I was thinking 120gb but if I can use a 160gb that
would be even better.

Do you know if there is a -definite- answer to this? I'd hate to order a
160gb and not be able to use it. Everything else that I have is already
at 320gb or larger as they are all much newer laptops.

Thanks again

 

[BillW50]

On 7/29/2010 11:06 AM, blues2use wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:22:52 +1000, Dianci Maichong wrote:
>> IIRC, 160GB and certainly no larger.
>
> Thanks for the reply. I was thinking 120gb but if I can use a 160gb that
> would be even better.
>
> Do you know if there is a -definite- answer to this? I'd hate to order a
> 160gb and not be able to use it. Everything else that I have is already
> at 320gb or larger as they are all much newer laptops.
>
> Thanks again

If you can read 160GB, than it should be able to read up to 2TB without
problems. As 128GB to 132GB is the tripping point if it can't read any
higher. Although they don't make 2.5 inch PATA drives that large yet
(and may never will either).

Worse comes to worse, if it can't read a larger drive which you had
purchased. There are lots of people on eBay that would be willing to pay
you good money to take it off of your hands. So you shouldn't be out
hardly any money to find out either way.

--
Bill
Gateway MX6124 ('06 era) 1 of 3 - Windows XP SP2

 

[John Doue]

On 7/29/2010 7:06 PM, blues2use wrote:
> Do you know if there is a -definite- answer to this? I'd hate to order a
> 160gb and not be able to use it. Everything else that I have is already
> at 320gb or larger as they are all much newer laptops.
>
> Thanks again

160G definitely but I would bet the largest size availabe (320G) would
work too. Given the fact those hard drive are really inexpensive those
days, and that at worst, you would pay for 320 and use 160, I personally
would not think twice.

My Thinkpad R51 bought in 2004 uses a 320G HD. No problem.

--
John Doue