Pavilion 9715 secondary harddisk

[Carmine Lauri]

Hello, I would like to upgrade my Pavilion 9715(UK) by adding an extra Harddisk, preferably a 180GB 7200rpm for DVD applications. My PC is running on Windows XP Prof. and has 512 MB Ram. How can I get my motherboard to recognixe the full capacity of a second harddrive, incase there is a limited amount it will see, like 60Gb (as i was told). Can I flash the bios (the version installed is 2.00 07/26/00) and which version will I need?
Manu thanks
Carmine

[Perignon]

Hi Carmine,

Above this page, the "support & drivers" link may help you find the appropriate BIOS update.

Also a PCI/IDE adapter from the manufacturer of your larger disk should offer an alternative solution to possible limitations put to your current system.

Alain.

[Roger Faucher]

Carmine:

My 250GB Western Digital drive came with just such a card. It was made by Promise.

HTH

Roger