Satellite M30 sees only 120 GB installed WD 250 GB HARD drive?

Recently my native HDD (on M30) crashed and I upgaded with Western Digital WD2500BEVE 250 GB. Disc.
But when I boot the sytem, it appears that only 120 GB is available!

Is it possible to use the laptop the full capacity of the HARD drive? Whow?

Thank you!

Hello

The fact is that not all HARD drive sizes are supported due to the limitation of HARD BIOS disk size.
Easy said: BIOS don't support all hard drives.

I've read many threads here in the forum about HARD drive sizes possible max and it seems that a 120 GB of HARD drive is wide that could be used in the Satellite M30.

You ask now for an update of the BIOS. Am I wrong?

Well, unfortunately, the update of the BIOS will not improve the situation and will not use the s larger HARD drive as 120 GB :(

Best regards

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