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Help on new Hard drive

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preator

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Hello,

A Friend of mine sent me here, they tell me that some one here may be able to answer a question of mine. I have a Compaq Presario 2200 series laptop (model 2252AP), the hard drive in it at the moment (the dead one) is a 30Gb (42000 RPM) Seagate, and I was thinking about putting a Seagate 80 Gb (52000 RPM). and what I want to know is will it work? as there is no hard disk config sort of thing in the BIOS. and I can't seem to find any update for the BIOS.

any help or advise at all would be greatly appreciated.


Regards,

Preator
 
Well, firstly, I think you mean 4200 and 5400rpm drives, since 15Krpm is the fastest I've heard of.

But minutia aside, all you need to know is what interface (connector) your old drive uses, and get a drive that uses the same. Since we're talking about a 30GB drive I can almost guarantee that it uses the PATA interface (aka IDE, ATAPI, EIDE). Modern computers are very backwards comaptible, as long as your hardware will fit in the slot, it will run.

Edit: Don't forget you need a 2.5" drive, 3.5" drives are for desktops and won't fit in any laptop I know of.
 
Like Avenger said, you have one too many zeros in your drive speed.

The Presario 2200 will easily accept a 80 GB/5400 drive, and you can even go bigger and faster if you like.

Yes, it uses the standard PATA/IDE interface. Any current 1.5" drive will do. You will have to remove the old drive from the Presario caddy, and put in the new one.

There's nothing you need to do in the BIOS.

BTW, that machine originally shipped with a 60 GB drive.

 
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