Hi, I recently bought a computer and was looking to upgrade the hard drive, it says it will only accept "IDE" hard drives, I was wondering if it would accept newegg's
"Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (Perpendicular Recording) ST3320620A 320GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive - OEM"
?
Link to the product is:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822148139
if you need it. Thanks.
2006-12-01 10:57:55 · 5 answers · asked by bfmvfan714 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
sure it can accept it. (Specialy if your Computer's P4 / Celeron for P4 above)
Here's detail information for ST3320620A :
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/ata/st3320620a.html
Important to notice :
Some systems BIOS have capacity limitations. Types that have
been identified are:
a 2.11GB or 4095 cylinder limitation
a 3.26GB or 6322 cylinder limitation
a 4.22GB or 8192 cylinder limitation
a 8.45GB Standard INT13 limitation (CHS[1024x256x63]x512)
a 33.8GB or 66,060,287 LBAs limitation
a 137.4GB or 268,435,455 LBAs limitation (28-bit limit)
and, if exceeded, may cause the system to hang during boot,
capacity reduction or it can truncate or wrap the cylinders when
auto-detect options set in the CMOS.
New INT13 Extensions and LBA mode in BIOS and FAT32 or NTFS-based
file systems are required to acheive full capacity. FAT32 file
system can create single partitions and logical drives up to 2TB.
FULL-CAPACITY solutions include third-party drive preparation
software, system BIOS update which supports LBA mode or third
party bios driven host adapters.
Default CHS translation:
16,383 cyl, 16 heads, 63 sectors = 8,455,200,780
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Windows XP Service Pack 1 and Windows 2000 Service Pack 3 with
48-bit LBA Address drivers are required for native support of
ATA (IDE) disc drives greater than 137GB.
Windows 98, Windows Millennium and Windows NT 4.x all have 137GB
native limitations supporting ATA (IDE) disc drives. Third-party
device drivers may be available from motherboard or host adapter
manufacturers for these legacy Windows operating systems.
Windows 95 FAT16 based operating systems are also limited to 8.4GB.
DOS 16-bit FAT file system cannot access more than 2.147 Gbytes per
partition.
So before that, make sure you already donwload and upgrade the latest bios version so it can read it up to 320gb. If your PC's P4 above then it'll be no problem at all.
Fell free to contact me ^_^
2006-12-01 11:00:08 · answer #1 · answered by asep_sidhi 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yep, Newegg is a great site for buying computer hardware. Looks like a good drive to me!
2006-12-01 11:00:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can upgrade your hdd, there are two types of hard drives (design) IDE and SATA sata is the new design IDE is the old type
newegg is the seller.
just order what ever gig size drive and state you want a IDE Hard drive
2006-12-01 11:22:24 · answer #3 · answered by Carling 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
if it will read the 320 gb it will
2006-12-01 10:59:44 · answer #4 · answered by spankdis 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It should!
2006-12-01 11:00:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋