A197XP Hard Drive

[cyberhounds]

Hello all,

I am looking at upgrading the 80GB 4200rpm hard drive that came with my A197XP and wondered if anyone knows of a maximum drive size that the BIOS will accomodate.

The main reason for the upgrade is that the supplied drive is just too slow for my needs. I do have a spare 60GB 7200rpm Hitachi drive, but am a little unsure if it's a good idea to put that one in due to the heat it pumps out.

I've seen a Seagate 100GB 5400rpm drive which should fit my needs, but don't want to buy one if it wont work!

Thanks for any help.

Cheers,
Ben

[kee-lo_]

Seb;

Still waiting for them to register my RA104, I did it like 2 weeks ago.

[Jay1]

i think i did it over the phone but did not get username and password.

[seb21__]

Still waiting for them to register my RA104, I did it like 2 weeks ago.

The Bios on my Labtop is 2 years. 2 or 4 weeks more........

............my God, it isn't so important.

[kee-lo_]

Its important if you need support anytime.

[seb21__]

That's a good point kee.

[SilverZero]

Harddrive: i saw a test of notebook harddrives on www.tomshardware.com, iirc the 60 GB hitachi was the fastest, but have a look on your own. do you need just more hd space or faster performance?

[seb21__]

Good piont SilverZero


My opinion is more diskspace is better. (like 100GB)


And I think Hitachi/IBM harddiscs are one of the best.

[kee-lo_]

Hitatchi do the best notebook drives in my opinion.

[cyberhounds]

Thanks for all the posts.

After NOT opening up my laptop (still under warranty), and NOT seeing the amount of space around the hard drive (there's about a 1cm gap above the drive), I decided to NOT put the 60GB 7200rpm Hitachi drive in as speed is more important to me than space, especially as I can pop the 80GB drive into a USB caddy.

And boy does the laptop fly now (very obvious speed improvement)! Although of course it doesn't. Because I didn't open it up...

Cheers,
Ben

[kee-lo_]

Hehehe