upgrading a dell 9100 inspiron?

Question

Hey I'm about to upgrade my dell inspiron 9100 and I was wondering could I install a 120gb or 160gb pata drive in my notebook? Dell's documentation states it can handle 100gb drive no problem, but for a couple of more dollars, I can get a bigger drive. Tell me what you think?

Answer 1

Get and install a 160 Gb drive...

It will work fine. !

Dell documentation is ....OLD. ! and we did not have big sized drives while the doumenattion was written. :)...and its not an updated documentation.

Answer 2

It would "fit" in your lap top but the max the computer will reconize is 100Gb. What you can do is when you load windows, Create two paritions. The first one make for like 60Gb (60000Mb) and load windows on that. To do that when you load windows it will come to a page after the "I accept" page and if it is a new hard drive it will say "Unpartition space (raw)" Then press the letter "C". and it will ask you how much you want. You can put what ever you want in there but it goes by Mb instead of Gb. But how ever many Gigs you want to put in to it just times by 1000. After windows has loaded you will go to your start menu and right click on "My Computer" and go down and click on "Manage". From there on the Right side of the window it will say "Disk management". Click on that and on the bottom on the left side will show all your drives (partitions). The drive that has black beside it you will need to right click and choose "create a partition" from there just click next untill you get to finish. Open up my computer and you will see two drives. The second one you can use as a back up drive but make sure when you reload if you need to that you do not delete your second partition.

Answer 3

Not true...windows will recognize the drive...that was only in 98se and such...xp has no limits.
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