Pavillion Dv4-1225dx do not fully recognize the capacity of the hard disk

Recently I replaced the OEM hitachi hard drive (SATA 250 GB at 5400 RPM) in my Dv4-1225dx. Replaced by a WD scorpio black 16mg buffer 320G 7200 RPM / min. system registers only one size of 298G drive despite the fact that the player goes out very well with the Western Digital diagnostic tool and check the bios of the system HDD Pavilion. Is there a BIOS setting that is to limit the ability of the systems to recognize more than 300 GB drives? If there is, I'm not, the Bios (BIOS latest worm d.55) hid all the settings that I'm used to seeing on other laptops. If anyone has had this problem, or have any ideas of what I should look at? Thanks in advance...

Hello

rdcnaz wrote:

Recently I replaced the OEM hitachi hard drive (SATA 250 GB at 5400 RPM) in my Dv4-1225dx. Replaced by a WD scorpio black 16mg buffer 320G 7200 RPM / min. system registers only one size of 298G drive despite the fact that the player goes out very well with the Western Digital diagnostic tool and check the bios of the system HDD Pavilion. Is there a BIOS setting that is to limit the ability of the systems to recognize more than 300 GB drives? If there is, I'm not, the Bios (BIOS latest worm d.55) hid all the settings that I'm used to seeing on other laptops. If anyone has had this problem, or have any ideas of what I should look at? Thanks in advance...

The missing space is called disk overhead. I'll show you and example. The image is that of a STAT 500 GB drive. In fact only 465 GB is used.  The calculation is simple. Please keep in mind that a kilobyte is actually 1024octets.

Best regards

ERICO

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