What is the upper limit of the size of a new hard drive in a gateway MX6453?

Title: original size for replacement laptop hard drive?

I want to upgrade to a hard drive more in my Gateway MX6453.  He is currently 160 GB, and I am running SP3.

I was warned by my computer technician I couldn't be able to go further, and I have certainly shouldn't push my luck and try something beyond 250 GB.  I contacted gateway and the rep online says 160 is too big, I could go - even if it is not clear if she was citing an authoritative source, or just read the greatest opportunity of their authorized supplier spare parts list.

Another tip from reading, I found it is often a problem with XP about Logical Block Addressing, which would limit the readable size 127 GB.  However, as my system currently reads 143GB in my C drive partition, I guess this isn't a problem.

Is there another BIOS or XP limit on this disc of size I can use?
If so, how to determine what it is?
And, is it possible to change it?

Thank you.

I went ahead and cloned a 250 GB drive, and everything seems to work well.

The folks at the blue and yellow big box store were very helpful, pointing out a software that can be started and run from its own DVDs at a reasonable price, then the process prescribed only an external enclosure for the new disc of cloning.  Also do they think that a drive yet more would be a problem, but they were only up to 250G to PATA drives (I think I've seen bigger PATA from the same manufacturer online).

I had barely a few minutes ago selection only one file in Windows Explorer, instead of the file clicked and everyone listed before it, but it seems to have disappeared after a reboot.  I'll post back here if that repeats or there are other problems, but for now it doesn't seem like there should be no problem for those who want to like me.

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