Vaio VGN-B1VP Uprgade Hard Drive

[imtansar]

Hi,

I have a Vaio VGN-B1VP laptop which came with Fujitsu MHT2040AT hard drive, having a 40 GB capacity.  I would like to replace it with a higher capcity hard drive.  Can anyone advice me what is the max GB this model can take?  I have read here a max of 250 GB this model can take, is it correct! 

Also can any type of interal HD would be ok or I need to look for any specific type, ie. IDE, SATA etc.  I am not sure what they are but aware of these type of HD are in the market.  I am not sure what  my exisiting one

is and how to find it.

Any help would be greatly appreciate and many thankx in advance.

Imtansar

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[Blencogo]

Hi Imtansar.

The VGN-B1VP does not support SATA hard drives, so you will need to buy an IDE Hard drive (Ultra ATA/100).

I think this model was released with XP Pro SP2 preinstalled, so it should not be subject to the 137GB LBA limit found on older computers.

As long as the new IDE drive has standard formatting you should be OK.

[imtansar]

Hi Blencogo,

Thanks for the info.  You are correct, it came with XP Pro SP2 preinstalled.  So it means I should be fine to go above 137 GB you mentioned!

Is there anyway to find out what type of my existing HD drive is?

Thanks once again.

Imtansar