Originally Posted by
dellhell
Thanks for the researched, detailed, accurate, and referenced feedback cadillacmike. It’s nice to get a response from someone who knows through experience what they are talking about and who adds to the knowledge bank. It sure beats the distraction of flaming attempts from high quantity/low quality attention seeking posters that plague all forums.
Yep – it’s either upgrade the BIOS to support 48-Bit LBA if possible or else keep the partition size below 128 GB on these old computers. My GX260 with BIOS version A09 is still running sweet from a 465 GB partition on the internal IDE drive and a 20” inch Dell 2007 WFP panel. Using the old girl to post this.