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Dell's BIOS options are so....restrictive.
There is hardly anything on the damn thing to tweak, adjust, or workaround.

I have this perfectly near new Western Digital Scorpio 80GB hard drive. The POST states that it sees it model and serial number. Then it hangs, and gives me the wonderful

Error 0200 - Fixed Disk Error 0

I have tried formatting it, then doing a low level full zero, looked for a BIOS firmware update for the laptop, looked for jumper limitations for the drive to test out a theory, even tried to look for some kind of full resetting option in the BIOS. Factory reset does not work.

What sucks is. It is Intel's ICH3. The thing should support drives up to the 137GB limitation specification. I am prone to thinking that Dell limited the spec to only maybe 60GB...even though the support specifications state that it is 30GB only.

I already blew that out by using a 40GB and that worked fine in the laptop. If I had a 60GB to play with, I could see since I already know that 80GB does not work.

EDIT - Found something that can edit the Phoenix BIOS from the Phoenix site. If I'm lucky (read--if I understand how to edit the strings in question) I should be able to change the hard drive limitation set by Dell. If I'm successful, I can use the better Western Digital drive that I have and I can help out the Dell Community forum that has had the same problem with the Latitude X200.

If not...well, this laptop will be one hell of a paperweight, and I'll be out a computer until we can get the Home Theatre PC project underway.

Meh...it's only because you can't really do anything in the Dell BIOS to fix the problem. There are not any "advanced" options (well, the ones that I would need to get around this) I know what it is. I just can't do anything about it.
I can do alot of things, but rewriting a BIOS flash ROM package...er, no.