ACER Aspire 3003 WLCI - WD250 drive

This is i thik might be usefull info to help you originally (credits)to: http://forum.xcpus.com/ask-gurus/15368-installing-hard-drive-acer-laptop.html

Question:

I have an ACER Aspire 3003 WLCI laptop that came with XP and a 40 gb hard drive. The drive crashed and I purchased a WD250 drive, but when I install it and install the software that came with the laptop it only formats the drive as a 132 gb partition. CMOS recognizes it as a WD250.

How can I get the full use of drive space????

Aswer:

Use a slipstreamed copy of XP SP2 or SP3. Not the OEM CD that came with your laptop which is XP w/o any SP, the cause of not supporting 48-bit block addressing and only recognising up to 132GB.
After clean installing, load the latest chipset driver, video driver and various other drivers for your laptop.

Get chipset and video driver from the manufacturer e.g. Intel and other bits from the OEM of your laptop e.g. HP/Dell/...
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ProtectSmart Drive Not Supported HP dv5-1003nr/DV5-1104ax

This solution posted by BOB on HP support forum

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notes:
worked on Dv5-1104ax.

AMD driveguard program was located in C:\SWSetup\drivers/AHCI/Packages/drivers/SBDrv/SB7xx/AccFilter/LH/setup32

dv5-1132la.
The path is C:\SWSetup\Drivers\AHCI\Packages\Drivers\SBDrv\SB7xx\AccFilter\LH\setup32\setup.msi

for more refence refer to the bottom of the page
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I bought a Dv5-1110em in the middle of December, 16.12 2008, and this problem existed from the first boot-up. It uses an AMD processor with a WD2500bevs 250Gb HDD and runs Vista 32bit SP1. After some considerable time spent in e-mails and phone calls to tech support I have finally got Protectsmart working. For those who might want to try it this is the route I took.

First download and install the latest Bios update from HP updates.

Un-install via control panel the Protectsmart hard drive protection.
Then remove any protectsmart folder still in the C: drive programs folder - I had two, both with different numbers of files!

Re-boot and then install the latest version of the ProtectSmart app sp39123

Go to the SWsetup folder in the C:drive. Follow the path :- drivers/AHCI/drivers/SBDrv/SB7xx/AccFilter/LH/setup 32

Inside there is a setup file AMD 12.0.058851 Run it. This offers to modify/repair/uninstall the AMD 3D driverguard. Choose repair.

Upon re-boot I found Protecsmart now enabled and working and no longer giving me 'drive not supported'

After all the hassle I have had over the past two months, un-installing/re-installing drivers etc, it came as some relief.

Whether this works with Intel machines or those running Vista 64bit I don't know, there may be a similar setup file that can be run, but in a situation like this anything is worth a try.

cheers,

Additional notes:
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64bit users, make sure you click on the "LH64A" folder instead the "LH" one.


DV5-1110ax AMD 320GB

Many thanks Bob works a treat!!

Remove SP39123
Remove all HP accelerator folders
Regclean if you have a cleaner
Restart
Install sp39123
Restart
C:\SWSetup\Drivers\AHCI\Packages\Drivers\SBDrv\SB7xx\AccFilter\LH\setup32
Run setup.exe (12.0.0.58851- AMD driver Support 3D driver guard) 8/1/2008
Restart
WORKING

Control panel / Protect smart- choose to be visible in tray or not
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