My 1720 is telling me that my HDD is about to fail 
. I have backups, saved nightly, of the complete drive. The primary drive is SATA and is a 2.5" Toshiba 500 GB, or at least that is what it was supposed to be, maybe it was a 320 GB. It only shows 193 GB. Advertising for the 1720 says 500 GB using two HDDs, so I assume the BIOS limits the total that can be addressed. I would like to know what maximum size HDD I can use in this computer. What are limiting factors? If it is available, could I buy a 500 GB drive or above and format into two or three or more partitions to take advantage of the full drive size? The Toshiba HDD replaced the original drive supplied by Dell (I think it was SATA 160 GB, showing 136 GB) which I have as a second drive. Do you have any recommendations on size and replacement product? Would there be another BIOS that would allow larger drives? (I think my BIOS is the latest available, Version A09) Thanks.
| This is what Belarc Advisor says about my drives (drive 0 is primary, drive 1 is original now available as spare/backup, drive 2 is an SD card, and drive 3 is external HD - Note Drive 0 shows Failure! Disk drive (500.11 GB) -- drive 3 Ricoh SD/MMC Disk Device (2.03 GB) -- drive 2 ST9160821AS [Hard drive] (160.04 GB) -- drive 1, s/n 5MA8RYL3, rev 3.CDE,SMART Status: Healthy TOSHIBA MK3252GSX [Hard drive] (320.07 GB) -- drive 0, s/n X8EBT3W4T, rev LV011D, SMART Failure |
Here are present volumes:
| c: (NTFS on drive 0) * Operating System on this drive | 186.80 GB | 46.26 GB free | ||
| d: (NTFS on drive 0) Dell Restore Sector | 21.47 GB | 15.86 GB free | ||
| f: (NTFS on drive 1) Spare Drive | 146.54 GB | 137.67 GB free | ||
| g: (NTFS on drive 1) Former Dell Restore Sector | 10.74 GB | 10.34 GB free | ||
| i: (NTFS on drive 3) External HD Not sure what this is | 42.32 GB | 33.77 GB free | ||
| k: (NTFS on drive 3) External HD used as backup daily | 368.28 GB | 188.07 GB free |