Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 08:37:27 -0800 From: Bill Schoolcraft <Bill@linuxcare.com> To: f-mobile <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Hard drive for Dell Inspiron 5000e - place to buy Message-ID: <3FB11047.AC77A0F@linuxcare.com> References: <20031111025207.GA39424@moo.holy.cow> <3FB07154.2080902@pacbell.net>
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richard childers / kg6hac wrote: > > <humbly_snipped> > That having been said, you may also want to consider replacing your > current hard drive with something larger; many laptops issued with 10 GB > hard drives - the limit, at their time of manufacture - can easily > contain 20, 30 or 40 GB hard drives, now that drive manufacturers can > pack two, three or four times as much data into the predetermined form > factor. </humbly_snipped> Seeing the age of the laptop/computer "Dell Inspiron 5000e" make sure your BIOS has the capacity to "SEE" the full size of the larger drives. I have a fairly new Toshiba-1715xcds and it would not see a 30-gig drive but saw a 20-gig drive fine.
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