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Old 1st February 2010 | 14:34
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Bushfiva
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It shipped with a 160GB PATA drive from Dell?? I thought the BIOS only addressed 137GB, which in practice means a 120GB hard drive. You can create partitions larger than 137GB, but once data gets written anywhere past 137GB it all ends in tears.
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