Yea i'm pretty sure its a dumb question but i'm looking for a bit of help trying to find a Hard drive configuration in a HP Bios that is version 6 and older. unlike the newer BIOS configuration that has all of easily displayed and set up for the HDD the older versions don't have that so i'm looking to move the HDD out of that machine and into a newer one but do not know how the drive is configured. So if someone could help me out with this that would be a big help.
Probably a stupid question about older HP BIOS configurations
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Do you have access to the old HP and able to view the settings in the bios? But really any modern drive should be using LBA and you dont worry about the other settings like Cylinders, heads, sectors per track, as those were fro old 540mb and smaller sized drives. A setting called LARGE would have increased drive size to about 8gb but everything past that would use LBA until we get to the new EFI or UEFI motherbds we have today.
Edit - and as always, before messing with yor drives you should insure that you have a recent backup.
Edit - and as always, before messing with yor drives you should insure that you have a recent backup.
It really would help if, for the present, you would set aside your concerns about BIOS configurations and how they may impact on the performance of the HDD you wish to install in a new PC.
Instead, describe precisely what you have in mind and provide some background info along these lines?
1. Where does that HDD come from - laptop, desktop? Is it a PATA or SATA HDD? What's is disk-capacity?
2. As far as you know is it non-defective? When it was in use there were any problems with the disk?
3. What precisely do you intend to do with that drive? Install it in a new build or a current machine? Generally describe the major components in the PC that you intend to use - the motherboard, for example.
4. Are you planning to use it as the boot drive containing the OS? Are you planning to fresh-install an OS onto that HDD? Which OS?
5. Or did you envision using the OS already installed on that HDD (assuming one has been installed).
Provide any other info that you think important enough so that you can get some intelligent & constructive responses to your query.
Instead, describe precisely what you have in mind and provide some background info along these lines?
1. Where does that HDD come from - laptop, desktop? Is it a PATA or SATA HDD? What's is disk-capacity?
2. As far as you know is it non-defective? When it was in use there were any problems with the disk?
3. What precisely do you intend to do with that drive? Install it in a new build or a current machine? Generally describe the major components in the PC that you intend to use - the motherboard, for example.
4. Are you planning to use it as the boot drive containing the OS? Are you planning to fresh-install an OS onto that HDD? Which OS?
5. Or did you envision using the OS already installed on that HDD (assuming one has been installed).
Provide any other info that you think important enough so that you can get some intelligent & constructive responses to your query.
The HDD is a 620 GB SATA Desk top drive, having windows 7 installed upon it and is currently the main boot able drive in the desk top that it is running in. i am trying to install it into a newly built machine but the configuration of the BIOS on the new motherboard does not allow the HDD to be read correctly cause it to fail upon start up.
I have tried to go into the BIOS of the older HP machine that the drive is in now but it is a BIOS version 5.59 so it shows no information on how the board and system see the drive such as if it is UEFI or Legacy, or IDE or SATA. so when going in to try to configure the new board to properly see it and boot it and drive fails and reboots then falling to a continuance of the OS boot or system repair. I would like to just move this drive over to the new machine so i won't have to do a system back up and re-installation of the OS on the machine.
I have tried to go into the BIOS of the older HP machine that the drive is in now but it is a BIOS version 5.59 so it shows no information on how the board and system see the drive such as if it is UEFI or Legacy, or IDE or SATA. so when going in to try to configure the new board to properly see it and boot it and drive fails and reboots then falling to a continuance of the OS boot or system repair. I would like to just move this drive over to the new machine so i won't have to do a system back up and re-installation of the OS on the machine.
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