Help wiht general Replacement Hardrive in Laptop Question!

[LemonHead]

Hi all,

Just a general question. I have a Compaq Presario 1700 that has a bad Hitachi DK23BA-15 drive. I don't want to replace it with the same crappy Hitachi drive, but I don't know if Laptops can be picky about drives. The Hitachi drive is a 15 Gig, UATA/66 4200RPM "Slimeline 9.5mm" drive, so the quesiton is: Can I replace it with any drive that, of course, has the same form factor, but is, for example, a UATA/100 5400 or 7200RPM drive? Again, I just want to be sure no problems before ordering.

Thanks for the input!

 

[Oyeve]

Dont know about the 1700 but my 5 year old 1800 has a 50 gigger ata/100 in it and its been working fine. I assume the difference between the 1700 and the 1800 is small so I dont think you should have a problem.

 

[blackinches]

blackinches likes the seagate momentus 5400rpm 8mb cache drives. they are very nice and uses little power. blackinches bought his at www.zipzoomfly.com.