ok i want to upgrade my hard drive and i wonder if any of you can help - this is what i have
win xp home ed, 1.10 ghz - 512 mb ram
could anyone tell me what the maximum size of hardrive this would take??? could i get away with a 300 gb? must i be lower?
please help
2007-03-10 00:00:30 · 8 answers · asked by loco_purple_haze 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
You can update your HD to as much as you want or add to it as long as you have the wiring and a slot to put it. It may not be neccisary though. If you want to increase speed, upgrade ram or procesor.
2007-03-10 00:12:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hard drive space has little to nothing to do with the processor or the operating system....the biggest hard drive you can place in a pc and have the size recognized is based on your motherboards bios. The other options are if your motherboard won't recognize a 300GB hard drive you can partition the hard drive into smaller portions and then it would read as more than one drive and possibly recognize the overall size.......check with the manufacturers site for detailed specs of your pc and see what it says it supports.....in general you can put whatever size drive you want into a pc....and have it work, its just a matter of how much it will recognize at a time.
2007-03-10 00:15:19 · answer #2 · answered by Helping Since 1969 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not sure of the question yet there are regular themes with particular motherboards and sophisticated force combinations whether it can be a potential concern too in the journey that your pc does no longer have sufficient potential it particularly is going to reason sluggish dying of a working laptop or pc (think of of it as a heart attack for ypour computer)in the journey that your potential isn't as much as voltage it particularly is going to likely be compelled to make extra and a few situations cant do it additionally to plenty electricity may additionally injury your computer purchase a potential line conditioner and voltage regulator interior this type of a UPS (uninteruptable potential grant)
2016-11-23 19:00:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there's a 4 GHZ processor i hear, or just 3.(sumhtin)
there's also the new terabyte drives (1000 GB :O), and there's and external HD that i heard about, it's 500 GB.
try a 256 VGA card (nvidia) or higher for the games, and a 1GB RAM gonna do the trick
2007-03-10 00:06:10 · answer #4 · answered by Ahmed F 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only limit would be your budget, if you want a 500GB hard drive you can install it, just make sure you get the correct interface (SATA, IDE...)
I wouldnt pay mind to the first 2 answers.
2007-03-10 00:07:17 · answer #5 · answered by INOA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you can install any size hard drive you dont need to up grade anything else
you can also just have your new hard drive as slave and keep your other as master then you would have 2 hard drives 1 master 1 slave
(for eg i have a 200gb hard drive as master and a 400gb as slave so i have a total hard drive capacity of 600gb)
2007-03-10 00:08:31 · answer #6 · answered by minty359 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
your processor can take the load it you partition the 300gb hard disk correctly.
2007-03-10 00:05:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is determined by your BIOS, and/or operating system.
2007-03-10 00:51:14 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋