Laptop HDD

Hi kvsridhar,

Are you actually having a problem now?

experts tell me that the BIOS in my machine will recognise only 137 GB.

That may be, but the software that came with your new hard drive will get you past this problem. If your system is seeing the full 160 GB, you're OK.

No, you have done nothing wrong !

Mike

I don't blame you my friend. While the capitalism that started with free-enterprise was, I believe, originally a good thing, the ensuing machine it has created has it's own set of problems. When viewed from the outside, I am sure America appears as immoral as Rome was in it's last days. However, there are a number of us that do not hold with the majority. We remember the value of liberty from the oppression of Government for all people.

However, you should try to find some new and more informed "experts".

An understatement, but GA!

G'day,

Why stick with Dell? I have hear and read of many complaints of Dell laptops failing just after the warranty expires. Then Dell won't fix them.

Just a it of info, do your own research.

Royce R. Vines

You may want to Upgrade your HD or even your MB. Maybe a USB HD will expand the storage you need. Can you upgrade or overclock the processor?

Reason i don't want to buy a new laptop is the high resolution that is no longer offered by anyone. If i have to buy, i will probably go for an Apple. (Even though using my software on windows would be like driving a Ferrari on Bangalore roads )

i do have usb hard drives which i carry when i travel, but the i ran out of memory in C drive, so the need to upgrade... thanks for your help.

If you use a USB HD (hard drive connected via USB port) you can have whatever size your BIOS can access. You could then set this disk to be whatever drive you wish. You could use your C drive as a boot disk and OS disk. Put your files on the USB hard disk (Drive D:?) and bingo, all the space you need. Maybe you'd Like to have just your data files on the new HD or you could put programmes there too. Whatever you wish. As long as the new disk in included in your path (usually done at boot time) it should work.

Hi,

The Windows operating system always shows less than size of the HDD. The other thing you may have is that Dell normally has a hidden compressed partition which has a copy of your original installation on it. This is how your system can be restored if something happens to destroy your "C" drive.

You should actually be able to put in an even bigger HDD. As a rule of thumb, if you fill up more than half of your HDD, the system will start to slow down more and more until you get to the almost full mark.

Randy

Check out the HP website under Small and Medium Businesses for high end machines. I am currently using a mobile workstation that has 1920x1200 resolution. My desktop workstation can go higher.

Or you can call the Small Business Group directly at 1-800-888-9909.

As an added value- The HP small business computers come with what you want on them, including Linux, XP32 or XP64 or the "newer" MS products as well as Office if you need an new version (or load your old version) and NO ADWARE OR SAMPLE PROGRAMS

So-For extra space use an external USB hard drive. You can put your Doc files on it, your email, etc., your programs on the build in hard drive and every thing else on your external drive. If not everything - then your photos videos on the external drive. Could be an external flash drive. And then you could take your movies to another computer if you need.

Usually, threads die a natural death i guess. However, i would like to close this one with heartfelt thanks to you all, who have given me much more than what i originally thought i could get on this forum. My laptop is up and running without any problems with a 160 GB Seagate drive. Thanks a million